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Photosketch is Cool!

October 6th, 2009

Photosketch is a new cool imaging buzzword. Imagine a tool that will let you sketch images, tag them with textdescription, sketch some other image and tag it and input to the system add some background description and what you get: a high quality image fascinatingly similar to the one you have just sketched. To describe it more here is a video:

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

Their abstact:

We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images. We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition. Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful; we also evaluate our system using the results from two user studies.

Some bloggers are tagging this as the next Photoshop. Sorry but I have to disagree. I once read in Seth Godin’s blog:

Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new

I am not a photo or imaging expert. But this Photosketch is a new concept for me and I hope that Photosketch will be some sort of a changer, the One that may innovate the imaging game.

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  1. October 6th, 2009 at 23:57 | #1

    I agree. This is FAR from what Photoshop can do. But it is a good software. It basically takes one of the capabilities of Photoshop and expands on it. But in terms of graphic design this is not the next photoshop. Maybe people are tagging it as such because they use photoshop for this exact purpose.

  2. Rene
    October 7th, 2009 at 10:12 | #2

    what ever happened to grabbing your camera, going out, and taking good pictures so that you won’t need to edit it?

    • October 7th, 2009 at 23:53 | #3

      @Rene
      kelangan pa rin yun. para meron pa ring mga images na i-edit.

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