Very soon I will prepare the analysis of the Google Pixel 8 Pro, some of its applications are still being updated and I want to show in detail how its camera behaves. By the way, one of its main innovations made me think: magic editor.

Google’s approach is changing. Realism doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if we stay true to what we saw when we took the photo. The important thing is that the photo looks exactly the way we want it to, even if that means changing it excessively. I don’t know if this is a great idea or a terrible idea.

Everything in the cloud. The magic editor and star features come at a significant cost: they only work with photos in the cloud. For Pixel 8 Pro’s new exclusive features, photos must be sent to Google servers. Therefore, the corresponding copy must be created in Google Photos.

This will also be valid for the night mode in the upcoming video. Our memories will need to be part of the Google cloud to be processed online. It’s an intriguing approach, to say the least, considering that Tensor G3 is supposedly intended to enable better local rendering.

This is not your face. “I don’t look very good in this photo.” We’ve all said this at some point, and I’ve always been clear about how to resolve it. The boring way is to repeat the photo; The quickest way was to use “Live Photo” style functions to recover the image. frame where that person looks best. A video that can be converted into a photo is an ideal solution.

Google wants to go further. It wants to combine information from photographs similar to the one we took to reconstruct our face using artificial intelligence. It is realistic, believable and priceless to anyone who sees the photo. But that won’t be you in the photo. There will be a reconstruction of your face.

The size of the tower, the sky, the vegetation… Very little of the original photo remains unchanged.

That sky, those elements… they don’t exist. If the day is cloudy, you can remove the clouds. If it’s not golden hour, you can completely change the lighting. If that river is stopped, you can change its flow. If you haven’t jumped enough, you can elevate yourself and reposition yourself in the photo via AI. It’s a kind of Photoshop that transforms photos into whatever we want.

From a personal perspective, as a photography enthusiast, I argue that users have complete editing freedom. On the other hand, it starts to get a little scary when even photos taken with a great terminal like the Pixel 8 Pro can be edited down to their essence, resulting in a completely different result than what the phone captured.

Mobile photography and vice versa. The proliferation of artificial intelligence on our phones is as inevitable as it should be. It will be an important element that will unlock your maximum potential. However, true to mobile photography, I can’t help but be happy when I find the exact opposite: Analyzing a phone whose camera looks dangerously like an analog camera, even though it achieves this through a combination of hardware and software.

Manufacturers like Samsung, Xiaomi, and even OnePlus are trying to kick processing down a few gears. Less artificial photos to get closer to realistic results. While its stance this year is more aggressive than ever, Google has always favored over-processing and artificial intelligence.

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