{"id":23625,"date":"2026-02-27T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23625"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:44:00","slug":"photoshop-is-totally-cooked-except-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/photoshop-is-totally-cooked-except-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop is totally cooked&#8230; except not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t have contrived a better example of the power &amp; pitfalls of generative imaging if I tried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pretty crummy cell phone picture I took yesterday from a moving train &amp; then enhanced with a single prompt using Gemini. The results are incredible\u2014if you don&#8217;t really care about the exact capacity of your jumbo jet! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current state of AI-driven editing drives home the wisdom of that old Russian staying, &#8220;Trust&#8230; but verify.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This also highlights the subtle treachery of AI photography: look how it shortened the 747! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yga5oo1D0B\">pic.twitter.com\/Yga5oo1D0B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/2027480316080701585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>See also my <a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/26\/look-at-this-tell-me-photoshops-not-cooked\/\">previously shared<\/a> example, in which Nano Banana quietly upgraded this propeller-driven plane into a jet:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Testing fence removal on my son\u2019s photo using <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NanoBanana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NanoBanana<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChatGPTapp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChatGPTapp<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bfl_ml?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bfl_ml<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re all impressive, but Nano tried to put jet engines on this prop plane, so I\u2019m giving this round to ChatGPT. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DOvZQLT5H5\">pic.twitter.com\/DOvZQLT5H5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/2003601093977387143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/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>I couldn&#8217;t have contrived a better example of the power &amp; pitfalls of generative imaging if I tried. Here&#8217;s a pretty crummy cell phone picture I took yesterday from a moving train &amp; then enhanced with a single prompt using Gemini. The results are incredible\u2014if you don&#8217;t really care about the exact capacity of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23629,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23625\/revisions\/23629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}