{"id":22288,"date":"2024-10-17T11:34:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22288"},"modified":"2024-12-09T09:35:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:35:56","slug":"project-perfect-blend-promises-game-changing-compositing-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/17\/project-perfect-blend-promises-game-changing-compositing-in-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Perfect Blend promises game-changing compositing in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh man, for <em>years<\/em> we wanted to build this feature into Photoshop\u2014years! We tried many times (e.g. I wanted this + scribble selection to be the marquee features in Photoshop Touch back in 2011), but the tech just wasn&#8217;t ready. But now, maybe, the magic is real\u2014or at least tantalizingly close!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#ProjectPerfectBlend | Adobe MAX Sneaks 2024 | Adobe\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xuPd0ZZa164?start=14&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a huge nerd, I wonder about how the tech works, and whether it&#8217;s substantially the same as what Magnific has been offering (including <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/18\/magnific-magic-comes-to-photoshop\/\">via a Photoshop panel<\/a>) for the last several months. Here&#8217;s how I used that on my pooch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Magnificent-Seamus-2048x899.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But even if it&#8217;s all the same, who cares?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being useful to people right where they live &amp; work, with zero friction, is tremendous. Generative Fill is a perfect example: similar (if lower quality) inpainting was available from DALL\u2022E for a year+ before we shipped GenFill in Photoshop, but the latter has quietly become an indispensible, game-changing piece of the imaging puzzle for millions of people. I&#8217;d love to see compositing improvements go the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, for years we wanted to build this feature into Photoshop\u2014years! We tried many times (e.g. I wanted this + scribble selection to be the marquee features in Photoshop Touch back in 2011), but the tech just wasn&#8217;t ready. But now, maybe, the magic is real\u2014or at least tantalizingly close! Being a huge nerd, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22288"}],"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=22288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22289,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22288\/revisions\/22289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}