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I like shooting in color and then doing black and white …black and white works well on photos I would have deleted because of terrible lighting .
I never had much use for going from black and white to colorizing since all my photos are already in color even the old once as a kid
There are numerous apps that include AI processing.
DXO Photo Lab (including the NIK apps), Luminar, OneOne Photo Raw 2023, and a bunch of other apps. Then there are "AI art generators" that allow you to create works of art that look like paintings, or a mix of photo/painting, and so on. There is one that was used to compete in a photography show, and won the first price as a painting that looks like done for former masters. This one is a shareware (I don't remember the name), and it works by listening to voice commands. You still have to choose and enter (type) some preset commands, and tell the computer what you want. For example, if you want the art to look somewhat similar to a certain Picasso or any other painters's work of art.
Midjourney avoids generating straight-up ‘everyday’ photography, but it can create beautiful images that are 90% or more of the way there: like a very detailed piece of art, a convincing piece of CGI, or perhaps a real photograph that’s been heavily Photoshopped to create an artistic effect.
I have found the topaz ai products excellent …. I use all of them
Yes, Topaz is a good one too. All the new photo-editing apps incorporate AI plus a series of sliders you can use to further adjust the app's AI presets. One has the option to let the software do the work automatically, or manually. But do the work manually takes longer than letting the software do it for you. For example, replacing the sky with another sky can be done manually, but it takes longer than replacing the sky with another when using the AI functions. In this case, all you have to do is to do a little "tuning" after. The same for adjusting lighting, color, brightness, etc. of individual parts or subjects in the photo. In this case a click of the mouse's pointer on one subject and letting AI do the hard work is faster than burning, dodging, and things like that, since all you have to do now is to "tune" the specific subject with the sliders.
I find I use gigapixel more than I ever thought …
With my macro I frequently have to crop a lot to get the perspectives I want .
I end up with files that are 2-3 mp….
When I display them on my website they don’t look the same size and fill the screen .
So I gigapixel them and they are now the same size on screen
Yes, the more you crop the photo, the smaller it gets. You may have to get closer to the subject or just fill the frame with the subject before you take the photo
You could always save a copy of the original as "web ready," in which case the copy a very large photo can be be sized to perhaps 400KB, which is good for posting online.
I use smugmug for our website .. I have choices of sizes when I post photos
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