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Adobe Demonstrates Almost Scary Levels of Advancement in Mobile Portraiture

Chris Gampat
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04/06/2017
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Lots and lots of people take selfies and portraits with their phones–I mean, look at what the iPhone 7 Plus’s portrait mode has done with phones these days. And today, Adobe is showing off some new technology powered by Sensei designed to make mobile portraits even better–if not possibly misleading. The new technology is basically letting your phone be nowhere as great as a dedicated lens and large camera sensor/film plane but still is good enough to fool most people.

The new technology video from Adobe showcases a lot of pretty cool technology advances like simulating what a lens can do based on various points in the image. So for example, the wide angle selfie camera on your phone will deliver a photo and using Adobe’s tech, it can be made to look like the photo was shot with a longer lens. Then you can do slight perspective correction, blur the background out and even apply the looks from other photos onto yours.

Insane, right?

Besides being catered to those sad folks who sit alone (like this guy does in the video) just to take a selfie and obsess over their self image, a great argument can be made that the fun is being taken out of photography and put more into the editing process. Plus, at least if you’re part of the online dating community, a lot can be done here to fool others into making people think you look one way vs another.

All of this in some way or another seems tied to Project Felix, which Adobe stated a while ago is giving designers the power to create photo realistic images without paying for expensive photo shoots. Personally, I’m just wondering what everyone is trying to do with the photo market right now considering that there seems to be so much disruption and consumers can’t even catch up.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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