Man, it must be nearly 20 years ago that we started envisioning drag-and-drop-simple composition and compositing in Photoshop—back when gradient-domain painting & blending was the emerging hotness. After plenty of false starts, could these simple interaction patterns finally become mainstream? Maybe! I must know more of this witchcraft:

Do you like image editing? Don’t like prompt engineering? Want to see what a giraffe-duck hybrid looks like?
If you answered yes at least once, you may like our new #SIGGRAPH2026 paper: LooseRoPE, which presents a new, prompt-free way to edit images using simple visual cues pic.twitter.com/JMzMDHJ9wE

— Etai Sella (@etai_sella) April 23, 2026