{"id":2851,"date":"2015-09-03T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:33:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T04:33:02","slug":"will-photoshop-next-auto-zap-distracting-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/will-photoshop-next-auto-zap-distracting-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Photoshop.next auto-zap distracting elements?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm\u2014interesting: according to PetaPixel,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2015\/09\/01\/adobe-is-working-on-automatic-distraction-removal-technology\/\">Adobe is Working on Automatic Distraction Removal Technology<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The scientists first gathered together thousands of photos and asked people (through Amazon\u2019s Mechanical Turk) to manually mark distracting regions in them\u2026\u00a0That set of annotated images was then used to train a computer to recognize areas of photos people might want to remove in random photos presented to it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, but I\u2019d like to see this run in reverse, slyly <em>inserting<\/em>\u00a0weird little elements (garden gnome, rune, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0531098\/\">cursed tiki<\/a>, etc.) into the periphery of your shots\u2014not unlike the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zmpt4T8Hyic\">PhotoBomb Tool parody<\/a>\u00a0that I got in trouble for blogging at Adobe. :-p\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178908\" src=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/09\/process.jpg\" alt=\"A number of examples of original photos, the identified distractions, and the resulting photo with the distraction removed.\" width=\"640\" height=\"670\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm\u2014interesting: according to PetaPixel,\u00a0Adobe is Working on Automatic Distraction Removal Technology: The scientists first gathered together thousands of photos and asked people (through Amazon\u2019s Mechanical Turk) to manually mark distracting regions in them\u2026\u00a0That set of annotated images was then used to train a computer to recognize areas of photos people might want to remove in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851"}],"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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}