{"id":23879,"date":"2026-04-27T06:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23879"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:50:13","slug":"looserope-promises-super-intuitive-illustration-compositing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/27\/looserope-promises-super-intuitive-illustration-compositing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;LooseRoPE&#8221; promises super intuitive illustration &#038; compositing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Man, it must be nearly 20 years ago that we started envisioning drag-and-drop-simple composition and compositing in Photoshop\u2014back when <a href=\"https:\/\/graphics.cs.cmu.edu\/projects\/gradient-paint\/\">gradient-domain painting &amp; blending<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do you like image editing? Don&#8217;t like prompt engineering? Want to see what a giraffe-duck hybrid looks like? <br>If you answered yes at least once, you may like our new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SIGGRAPH2026?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SIGGRAPH2026<\/a> paper: LooseRoPE, which presents a new, prompt-free way to edit images using simple visual cues <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JMzMDHJ9wE\">pic.twitter.com\/JMzMDHJ9wE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Etai Sella (@etai_sella) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/etai_sella\/status\/2047299099427315736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, it must be nearly 20 years ago that we started envisioning drag-and-drop-simple composition and compositing in Photoshop\u2014back when gradient-domain painting &amp; 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&#8217;t like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23879"}],"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=23879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23886,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23879\/revisions\/23886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}