Years ago Adobe experimented with a real-time prototype of Photoshop’s Landscape Mixer Neural Filter, and the resulting responsiveness made one feel like a deity—fluidly changing summer to winter & back again. I was reminded of using Google Earth VR, where grabbing & dragging th
Nothing came of it, but in the time since then, realtime diffusion rendering (see amazing examples from Krea & others) and image-to-image restyling have opened some amazing new doors. I wish I could attach filters to any layer in Photoshop (text, 3D, shape, image) and have it reinterpreted like this:
New way to navigate latent space. It preservers the underlying image structure and feels a bit like a powerful style-transfer that can be applied to anything. The trick is to… pic.twitter.com/orFBysBpkT
— Johannes Stelzer (@j_stelzer) July 15, 2024