Photographing what was there

[Dirk Rösler]

Oh, and if you thought the Ansel Adams filter was bad, have a look at automated Digital Face Beautification. An algorithm that makes people look better by correcting their features to the ideal form.

http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer/beautification/

It's funny how photographers get fired and picture editors upset when a guy uses PS on a news item, but there seems to be strong demand for an automated tool which does acceptable heavy manipulation.

This may also open the floodgates to plastic surgery, another story.

[JW Dewdney]

Oh, and if you thought the Ansel Adams filter was bad, have a look at automated Digital Face Beautification. An algorithm that makes people look better by correcting their features to the ideal form.

http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer/beautification/

It's funny how photographers get fired and picture editors upset when a guy uses PS on a news item, but there seems to be strong demand for an automated tool which does acceptable heavy manipulation.

This may also open the floodgates to plastic surgery, another story.

I see the DIFFERENCES - but the 'afters' don't really look better or worse to me. Maybe the whole symmetry/proportion thing ain't all it's cracked up to be.

[DrPablo]

Not sure what the Ansel Adams filter is to which you refer, but I at one point began to employ a technique advertised as an Ansel Adams-like effect. Basically you just drop the blue channel really low when using the channel mixer. It's like sticking a Red 29 filter in front of your camera. Really dark skies, lots of contrast. Calling it 'Ansel Adams' may be a bit of hyperbole, but it does have its own drama and is better than just desaturating.

[Dirk Rösler]

Look here: http://people.csail.mit.edu/soonmin/photolook/ [I don't think they call it that way, but others have attributed it that title]

"Light Crafts is working on duplicating this kind of 'Ansel Adams filter' in their next release of their LightZone image editing software." http://www.lightcrafts.com/

[cyrus]

Oh, and if you thought the Ansel Adams filter was bad, have a look at automated Digital Face Beautification. An algorithm that makes people look better by correcting their features to the ideal form.

Oh for goodness sake!

Yeah, this is precisely the sort of technological effort that will introduce world peace, feed the hungry, fix the hole in the ozone and generally make the world a better place...not.