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Those who work with artificial intelligence typically prefer to take a sunny view of its potential. In the optimistic take, AI liberates humanity from its unimaginative grunt work, freeing us to focus on more creative and engaging pursuits. (In the pessimistic take, AI gains consciousness and super intelligence, and destroys all of human civilization, but let’s not worry about that right now.)
Photolemur is definitely built around the first promise. Trained on over 1 million images, this AI-powered software promises to improve your images instantly with zero intervention on the user’s part beyond a drag and a drop. Has our AI liberation moment arrived?
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Unlike other editing programs that offer one-click-fixes, Photolemur doesn’t apply a hard-coded (i.e. inflexible) set of adjustments to your image. Instead, it uses machine vision algorithms to explore the contents of an image first before it can hone in on specific tweaks.
Once it knows what it’s looking at, Photolemur applies 12 different algorithms to improve the photo. These algorithms include color recovery, sky enhancement, exposure compensation, natural light correction, foliage enhancement, noise reduction, facial retouching, horizon straightening, smart dehaze, tint perfect, RAW processing and JPEG corrections. These fixes are targeted at just the areas that are appropriate and need them (at least, in the software’s view).
Where other editing programs offer a one-click-fix as a jumping off point for your own edits, Photolemur offers only an opacity slider, which essentially lets you dial back the edits Photolemur has made globally, across the entire image. Beyond that, your only other option is to export your corrected image as a JPEG to a local...