![]() Instead they only take a single click of a mouse. These might not be that big of a deal if they took an esoteric knowledge set to use. Today there are viable alternatives to Photoshop and my personal favorite is Pixelmator Pro, a much more nimble image editor that packs in some game changing features, many of which are based on machine learning, like ML Super Resolution. The hardest application for me to replace was Photoshop, as I’ve been using Photoshop since version 3.0 as a kid, as in the PowerPC Photoshop 3.0 from the early 90s, not CS 3, before Photoshop could be used as an adjective. In recent years, my personal and professional life has shifted away from Adobe Creative Cloud to a more varied and diverse software set. Rather than discuss the ins and outs of machine learning, how its shaped speech recognition software or computer vision, we can make it work for us without a deep understanding. ![]() Now we’re in the era of machine learning which can do a lot of dirty work for us.Įxplaining machine learning for the non-programmers of the world generally causes one’s eyes to glaze over, explaining training data, neural networks, probabilistic reasoning and so forth but it has become so ubiquitous even non-programmers encounter it’s shorthand, ML. Previously taking on a project like this, would have required tens of hours restoring them by hand painting in lost details to achieve similar results per photo, whereas today it a fraction of that, spending only an hour or so per photo as I being meticulous and still performing minor touch ups. The big question I kept getting asked was, how do did I do it? For new buyers, the app is currently on sale - 50% off for a limited time.Recently, I restored a bunch of old macOS (OS X) desktop backgrounds from OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (2006) on my personal blog, upscaling them from their original 1920 x 1200 resolutions to 5k, likely much higher than even the original photos ever existed. Update for free to the latest version to try out the new features. They are also introducing a new Select and Mask tool to help make exact selections of traditionally-difficult areas like human hair or animal fur.Īs always, Pixelmator Pro is available exclusively through the Mac App Store. If you want something more manual, you can ask Pixelmator to select the subject only and then refine the selection using the usual selection tools palette. Remove Background is also exposed through AppleScript and as a Shortcuts action. A background removal on Intel machine could take about 30 seconds, whereas on a M1 computer it will be in the 2-5 second range. ![]() Of course, the background removal is accelerated using Apple’s Core ML framework which means it can take advantage of the Neural Engine found in Apple Silicon chips. This step removes color fringing artifacts (traces of the previous background showing through) and helps integrate the superimposed layer much more realistically with a replaced background. As well as using machine learning for precise selection cutouts, Pixelmator has a final stage called ‘Decontaminate Colors’ to help refine the colors at the edges of the objects. To remove a background from an image in the new Pixelmator, you simply press the button and it figures out the rest. Version 2.3 also includes more fine-grained AI-enhanced selection options if you require more manual control. The Remove Background command automatically detects the subject and erases the background. Using machine learning and AI, Pixelmator users can separate the foreground from its background in one click. Pixelmator Pro is adding advanced background removal and subject selection with today’s 2.3 update.
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