I’ve been using Photoshop since they introduced layers, so a long time. I also majored in realistic illustration at my college. That certainly has helped with retouching. What I see with this is an acceptance of a lower standard of reality. Edges, proportions, perspective, diffusion & reflected light (color too) are now based not on observed reality, but instead on certain vectors fitting an acceptable parameter of aggregate information. Soon we will dip into a visual zone analogous to the inward spiraling reiterations of modern pop music. Variations will repeat with each successive digital offering until there is no longer any actual variation. Originality will be long extinct by then. Anyone who notices or objects will be labeled an antisocial curmudgeon or worse & deplatformed. Twenty years ago, either sample would have been rejected as unfinished.
I’ve been using Photoshop since they introduced layers, so a long time. I also majored in realistic illustration at my college. That certainly has helped with retouching. What I see with this is an acceptance of a lower standard of reality. Edges, proportions, perspective, diffusion & reflected light (color too) are now based not on observed reality, but instead on certain vectors fitting an acceptable parameter of aggregate information. Soon we will dip into a visual zone analogous to the inward spiraling reiterations of modern pop music. Variations will repeat with each successive digital offering until there is no longer any actual variation. Originality will be long extinct by then. Anyone who notices or objects will be labeled an antisocial curmudgeon or worse & deplatformed. Twenty years ago, either sample would have been rejected as unfinished.
Fuck… I stopped my monthly subscription to Photoshop. This makes me want to subscribe again.
Really cool feature.
Helpful examples to illustrate how this works.