[HN Gopher] Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI-powered Deband fea... ___________________________________________________________________ Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI-powered Deband feature Author : ingve Score : 42 points Date : 2022-12-21 22:08 UTC (51 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.pixelmator.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.pixelmator.com) | frereubu wrote: | Slightly OT, but the one thing I hate about watching films on | streaming services is the banding on the images. Any relatively | dark scene with gradations of lighting in the background is a | mess of shifting lines. I'd love to see something like this built | in to a native Netflix client... although I realise hell will | freeze over before that's a reality. | scaredginger wrote: | I don't see why clever video post-processing couldn't help with | this. Why do you say hell will freeze over? This seems like a | much easier solution for them than to increase bitrates and | thus, bandwidth | TutleCpt wrote: | It's a cheesy marketing tactic to refer to anything as magical. | Apple started this trend. There's nothing magical going on. | Clever maybe but certainly not magic. | toomuchtodo wrote: | Arthur C Clarke would disagree. | cmer wrote: | How do Pixelmator Pro vs Affinity Photo compare these days? | throwaway675309 wrote: | I haven't tried this one yet, but in the last few months they | finally released the ability to open up animated GIF files, which | was one of the last reasons I was still using Photoshop. | | Pixelmator has been my go to graphic design application on my M1 | Mac for the past year now and it feels good to cut the Adobe | cord. | make3 wrote: | very cool application | vletal wrote: | On mobile there is no visible difference in the interactive | example on the web. Before/After looks exactly the same (iPhone | 13). | | Maybe use a zoomed example on mobile? | aliston wrote: | That's odd - I am seeing a pretty clear difference on iPhone | 13, iOS 16.1. | bee_rider wrote: | I wonder if it will ever get to the point where we specifically | as a lossy compression algorithm generate images that can be | enhanced into what we want. "What is the smallest image that | <popular AI of the day> will blow up into the image I want" might | be an interesting question. | madrox wrote: | Finally "enhance enhance enhance" won't just be a meme from | CSI. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-21 23:00 UTC)