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I'd rather go to a new restaurant than eat in the same place twice. I see the $/hr argument, but the novelty of the game - how memorable and accessible it is, compared to so many other games - makes it worth the premium to me. There's another aspect - how much do you value original experiences. A second-hand copy of The Witcher, Spider-Man, or any other recent AAA game costs around £20 and offers literally hundreds of hours of gameplay. My wife plays a lot of open-world games on the PlayStation 4. Many of them are just as fun and innovative. Goose's £3.60/hour pales into comparison to any of the thousands of free games available on mobile. OK, but videogames are a different experience to other forms of entertainment. The average book I read tends to have a value of about £0.50-per-hour. 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Nonetheless, my primary interest would simply be that Affinity first focus on API's that simply allow the community or 3rd parties to build these integrations as there is no downside in such focus as they are already working on the API's. ![]() Anyone can skip any of the existing advanced tools like the inpainting brush and do it manually if they choose, that doesn't change with AI. However, AI that is finely tailored to specific and narrow tasks that can be used as a tool is extremely beneficial and lots of individuals are interested in those capabilities. And FWIW I am also not interested in the random generative AI slot machines that people use to post images all over social media. It's not just about simple editing, but also saves models, money and documents and arrangements for privacyĪll I am suggesting is that some people will not care about AI based features because for example they take pleasure in doing things manuallyīut that is an argument that could be put forward against any new feature. Simple example I create with assistance of AI, which would be great if I sinmply could add the person direct in Affinity. The ligh plans save me a lot of time at the shoot, I can already prepare the light setup to get my objects positioned and lighted correct It generates concepts for me like light plans and mooth board fill in for customers I agree it is hyped, but as professional industrial photographer AI became a bit more than that for me that that.ĪI based background removal, and content aware fill inĪI based person/subject cut out, removal & shifts and subject exchangeīut also adding persons, because AI doen not need all those private documents And in other IT software domains too, just look how much AI Microsoft incorporates now into their software portofolio. and so on, are all too incorporating AI tools into their software. For example Luminar, Topaz, Pixelmator Photo (Photomator). Further many imaging software based tools have or are jumping on the bandwaggon here, so not just Adobe. might be useful and handy to have, as far as those do a more precise and exact job than fiddling manually long time around to yield such results.Īctually AI is everywhere that much hyped, that it is sometimes hard to tell where and for what it makes sense or not. ĪI based person/subject cut out, removal (like PS/LR offers) and subject exchange Well it always depends what makes sense here to have, speeds up image editing processes and overall eases the work. Game is changed again in favour of Adobe now. I think Adobe has brought some new revolution. I really like Affinity very much, much more than Photoshop, but if it stays out Affinity, the difference will become too big and it will run far behind. However, if there are no AI plug-ins coming for Affinity and it will not be integrated like Adobe, than it might for me a reason to move back to Photoshop. So thanks to all who shared their data, AI exists by those □. People will start to realise what privacy means. So if you suddenly see you face popping up… you shared it with all rights. Well, they sold all your data and AI is just one example what they did with it. They knew, if you don’t pay for the product, you are the product. They always said they have nothing to hide. All what is in is shared by all people via social media like. I don’t think it will be the end of the world. Probably it will be more the end of the world as we know it! □ Plug-ins don't know, there are some online service which claim to offer such things, like for example. The result is a genuine desktop-grade, professional photo editing app that provides an all-new way to interact with your images, without any compromise.Probably not, if not some third party service is reused therfor, as AI based algorithms/routines (neural network based) do first need some amount of (pre)available data and hardware resources in order to learn what and how to perform it. With meticulous attention to detail, each tool, panel and control has been completely reimagined for touch, and all rendering, adjustments, brushes and filters have been fully hardware-accelerated. Affinity Photo is a great app that can make you edit your photos like a pro easly and really fastĪffinity Photo offers an incredibly fast, powerful and immersive experience whether you are at home, in the studio, or on the move. App standard notes11/15/2023 ![]() Editors have also been renamed to match this paradigm.
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