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Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen

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912 points ralusek | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.328s | source
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porphyra ◴[17 Oct 24 15:29 UTC] No.41870564[source]▶
I find that Adobe is really pulling away from open source software with all this AI stuff. A few years ago it could be argued that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable could do almost everything that Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom could, albeit with a jankier user interface.

But now none of the open source software can compete with AI generative fill, AI denoising, and now AI rotation.

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dagmx ◴[17 Oct 24 20:47 UTC] No.41873609[source]▶
With all due respect there’s never been a time when that could have legitimately been argued unless someone was doing relatively basic things with those apps or was a hobbyist.

There’s always been a significant gap in capabilities once you looked past the surface.

I find this sentiment is common among FOSS advocates who don’t actually professionally use those tools.

I am definitely an advocate for free tools closing that gap, but I both design content professionally and contribute to OSS projects to close that gap. So I feel quite confident in saying that gap has always been large when compared to the Adobe suite.

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woah ◴[17 Oct 24 23:26 UTC] No.41874830[source]▶
Even if the open source option is only slightly worse, why would a professional allow that to impact how they earn a living?
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1. bombcar ◴[18 Oct 24 10:15 UTC] No.41877910[source]▶
Let’s assume the open source software suite was exactly as capable and performant as Adobe’s.

Unless everything is exactly the same (even the default file format) you’re still going to be better off with “what everyone uses” because you have to share content, and one mistake of sending a GIMP file instead of a PSD isn’t really worth the savings.

Where the open source stuff shines is where you have 10,000 employees who need minor image editing once a month or less; then you can save millions by using GIMP et al.

It’s possible to have a complete open source image setup - https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/about/index.html has done it, for example (and the issues he experiences are worth reading).