[HN Gopher] Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI-powered Deband fea...
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       Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI-powered Deband feature
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2022-12-21 22:08 UTC (51 minutes ago)
        
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       | 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.
        
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