{"id":16773,"date":"2011-01-12T07:37:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2011-01-12T07:37:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:37:58","slug":"app-idea-photo-defiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/app-idea-photo-defiler\/","title":{"rendered":"App Idea: Photo Defiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day while using Instagram, it occurred to me: To <em>really<\/em> do proper retro photos, I need a way to obscure half the image with my dad&#8217;s finger. \u00a0In that vein, how about an app that would fill your images with cliched errors? \u00a0A few ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Head Clipper<\/strong>: Use face detection to identify people in an image, then partly lop off their domes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shadow Caster<\/strong>: Hey, where&#8217;s the photographer? Ah, there&#8217;s his handy shadow!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Back Lighter<\/strong>: Fill light\/Shadow-Highlight is pass\u00e9; we need a way to silhouette subjects into oblivion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grass Expander<\/strong>: Auto zoom out, then use\u00a0Content-Aware Fill to surround one&#8217;s subject with even more grass &amp; extraneous details.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blink Synthesizer<\/strong>: If society has figured out how to put human eyes onto <a href=\"http:\/\/muppetswithpeopleeyes.tumblr.com\/\">Muppets<\/a>, surely we can shut the eyes of at least some people in a group photo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Face Blurrer<\/strong>: A bit o&#8217; witness protection.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital Intruder<\/strong>: My dad&#8217;s finger on millions of handsets around the world. You&#8217;re welcome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Not quitting my day job,<br \/>J.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day while using Instagram, it occurred to me: To really do proper retro photos, I need a way to obscure half the image with my dad&#8217;s finger. \u00a0In that vein, how about an app that would fill your images with cliched errors? \u00a0A few ideas: Head Clipper: Use face detection to identify people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}