{"id":9177,"date":"2019-08-29T07:10:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T14:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2019-08-30T11:28:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:28:38","slug":"luminar-invents-google-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/29\/luminar-invents-google-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Luminar invents Google+ 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2019\/08\/27\/skylum-shows-off-content-aware-ai-structure-tool-coming-to-luminar-4\/?mc_cid=d98975bccb&amp;mc_eid=53d8d48922\">AI Structure<\/a>\u201d feature looks neat, but I take slight exception to the claim to being \u201cthe first-ever content-aware tool to improve details only where needed.\u201d The Auto Enhance feature built into Google+ Photos circa 2013 used to <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.justia.com\/patent\/10114532\">do this kind of thing<\/a> (treating skin one way, skies another, etc.) to half a billion photos per day.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as I learned right after joining the team, Google excels at doing incredibly hard stuff &amp; making no one notice. I observed back then that we could switch the whole thing off &amp; no one would notice or care\u2014and that\u2019s exactly what happened. Why? Because A) G+ didn\u2019t show you before\/after (so people would never know what difference it had made) and B) most people <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/of-photography-bad-wine\/\">are to photography as I am to wine<\/a> (\u201cIs it total shite? No? Then good enough for me\u201d). Here at least the tech is going to that tiny fraction of us who actually care\u2014so good on \u2018em.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AI Structure in Luminar 4\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSinCPXkklQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SSinCPXkklQ\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201cAI Structure\u201d feature looks neat, but I take slight exception to the claim to being \u201cthe first-ever content-aware tool to improve details only where needed.\u201d The Auto Enhance feature built into Google+ Photos circa 2013 used to do this kind of thing (treating skin one way, skies another, etc.) to half a billion photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177"}],"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=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}