These photos are easy to fix even with built-in LR algorithms. In my experience, photos with a huge dynamic range and colour temperature difference are very difficult for LR and C1 autosettings. For example, direct sunlight on the face and chest is in a shadow at the same time, and photos with mixed colour temperature, when a person and a background have more than 1000 K difference. PS: btw, thanks for the video, every time an interesting topic.
I think you should do this to crop sensor camera instead. Sony full frame in particular have a lot of dynamic range. Which gives even Lightroom a lot of room to fix photos. Heck try shooting with an old camera with limited capabilities. Canon 5d classic, Canon Xti. This will really show what Impossible can do.
I could totally see myself using this AI plugin. I only see 3 downsides or things to consider: 1) you need an internet connection - that is not possible everywhere if you are "on the road" 2) the quality of the correction heavily depends on the dynamic range of the sensor that you are using - granted that even Canon now comes closer to Sony and Nikon (also Sony sensors) but if you shoot on older cameras the AI cannot fix the image outside of the scope of the sensor (ISO noise, exposure, etc) 3) it only works in Lightroom and I prefer the color management of Capture One Pro for those kind of shoots - I would like to know if Pye is also considering opening it up to C1P Otherwise it looks promising. Maybe I try it even if I don't like LR.
A better test would be to use jpg files instead of raw, because raw preserves a lot of info, so the terribly-looking photos are actually not that terrible internally.
How do we add the Impossible Things plugin to Lightroom Classic in the first place? The video is just assuming that one has already installed the Impossible Things and that its already showing up as a plugin in Lightroom. We need to know how to add the plugin first so that we catch up with your steps. Some are not even sure if the Impossible Thing is a standalone photo editing software which one can install on a computer or it can only work with other softwares like Lightroom. Thank you so much for the video. Its quite nice and interesting.
Great tool, but I don’t think that people want to be spending $120+ per month to be able to fix their wedding shots. Hell no. Maybe if it was like a $20 a month type of thing then you then you could argue that it would be worth it, but definitely not at 0.06 cents per shot.
This is a pointless waste of money for mediocre results. You can achieve the same thing through batch processing with Lightroom, using auto-exposure, auto-white balance, and presets. The problem is that many photographers don't know the potential of Lightroom's own capabilities. It's unclear what the essence of artificial intelligence is here, except for the fact that the subscriber automates the program's capabilities rather than those of external processing resources. It seems more like using trendy words like "artificial intelligence," but in fact, we get ordinary automation and importing of simple preset settings, whether it's installed on the computer or read from the company's cloud.
As long as 2 things, 1 that its pay per image, and 2, that ther not actually charged for the image until export rather than after processing, this way one could make the comparison and choose which is better rather than paying for all the photos and deciding after processing that you wanna keep just 3 out of 4 of the impossible edits and end up wasting your money on some you won't end up keeping and exporting
does not look ABSOLUTE GARBAGE photos to me but just a coupla stops over/under exposed and white balance off both of which would take 10 seconds to change and sync or am i wrong?
Will fix any photo? All the images has the same error. What do you mean any photo? Where are the out of focus stuff, miss-focus, shake blur, closed eyes, severely over exposed etc? Is this just an ad for this software?
I don't want to be judgmental but all of your photos "just" have a wrong white balance (and need some pretty basic exposure corrections), which if you shoot in raw is pretty easy to fix (literally just 2 sliders). Additionally, if this program is intended to be used by professionals, then all these people know what they are doing so it is easy for them to fix such small mistakes. I totally get your point about editing thousands of photos but I believe this software is very useful just for small and quick corrections (I am not a professional so no strong opinions here). I believe that a "bad" photo is a photo that is completely blown out (or important details cannot be recovered) or a photo that is out of focus or a jpeg with completely wrong white balance or a photo shot in ISO 25600. How will this software "fix" something like that? Finally, I get the title "New AI Software Will Fix Any Photo" but I believe this is far from true. Again, I don't want to be harsh, I am just opening a discussion.
I don't know about you but when I was shooting weddings full time and had 3000 images of my own and 3000 from my second shooter, my editing would take 3-8 hours total. I then started outsourcing the culling and editing to an associate. I would totally pay $120 to have 2000 images automatically done. That's like 3% the cost of a $4,000 wedding. If it does what it claims, it's totally worth that. The only reason I might not use this is if my associate was willing to do it for $120 and I wanted to employ them but most people are charging more than that now. -P
@@FStoppers Sure, that's why I said no strong opinions since I am not a professional. For batch basic processing I'm sure that this software is a life saver. My main comments were about what would happen if a shot was "bad" due the issues I've mentioned and about your claim about the software fixing everything.
I see a lot of these AI software and only one particular type of photography. Is there anything for Event photography? Mixed lighting? I have used, "Imagin AI" no option for event photography, "Narrative Photo Culling" and even "Aftershoot" for culling. Manufacturers are only working on portraits. pretty much useless for Events. I know White balance is pretty subjective when it comes for indoor event photography and it would be really tough to create a white balance algorithm but would be nice to see that someone is working on it. :) I almost signed up for "Imagin AI" but you still have to go through and touch up and go over all the edits afterwords anyway. Lightroom auto sync and auto is pretty decent. Just back off the saturation, vibrance, and bring the shadows down about 20% after the auto sync. I really dislike the pay per image unless you have an editor that actually edits like you do. Especially if the exposure isn't even correct.
If you know your craft and only shoot low volume portrait sessions, this plug in would not be needed. I can see this tool being used for those running a high volume photo business like weddings and engagement sessions.
Wondering when the big camera companies will implemet this kind of software directly on the camera. I mean, you could still have a RAW-image but the JPGs should come out like this. If Sony, Canon, Nikon are not really fast, some kind of a Tesla-like competitor will eat them for lunch.
2 questions - will it or is there another that will work Inside Apple photos ? All the ones i have tried either creates a new photo - thus updating all the metadata and dates - and creates 2 different ones in my library….. PLEASE Help !!
Just like music, photos can be overly produced and poorly composed. Photos should be created and purchased with different styles in mind. You can tell when a photo is overly produced because it looks fake. You can tell when a song is overly produced because all the imperfections are gone. You decide what kind of art works for you. To me the best art has a human touch to it and not a computer’s
Well I looked at it and these photos was an easy fix, but I dont like that U have to select and send every photo that U R using. Buy a software with AI and do whatever U want with internet closed if U want...
Nice. You should have done it with jpegs or smartphone pictures though. If you go out with a 1000 USD+ camera and know you shoot raw, you know how to edit the way this ML program does it.
Idk. I’ve never even used Lr. I always use Ps and just edit and layer every single photo myself. I’ve tried presets but I’m just that anal that I just do it myself.
Double exposure on 35mm? Back in 2000 a few armatures with Average Intelligence got together under my leadership for a wedding. We all knew very little....except for one genius who thought he knew everything....and decided that when a roll of film was shot he would not fully wind it back into the can. Now the next guy would pick up a roll and the rest is no history. Any thoughts whether AI is up to the task?
Interesting someone would pour money into developing stuff like this, when more or less exactly the same is already in Lightroom's roadmap. Maybe already version 13.
I don't think Lightroom has any algorithms that use lighting conditions to apply presets and Ai automation to it. Without saying too much, I was privy to an early version of this software years ago that was partnered up with Canon cameras. The project eventually got dropped and now the proprietary tech is found in Impossible Things. I believe it is patented so I'm not sure many other companies will be able to use it, but I will say, having software figure out the specific lighting in a photo first is probably as important or even more important than recognizing a face or depth of field. As you can see in this video, Lightrooms current auto exposure and auto corrections doesn't always beat what Impossible Things is able to achieve in just the first few weeks of being released. -P
Love the fact that your kid is gonna grow up in PR. He looks like he’s having a blast. Great video, Lee. I’m also in PR and looking to collab. Sent you an email and IG DM. Also, I was on the fence about Imagen AI; you gave me some thinking material!
Their website says "The result is a model that recognizes and correctly edits in every common scenario a photographer faces, including tricky ones like mixed lighting, low light conditions, high dynamic range scenes, and more." Pretty ingenuine to then say that dont do animals the model hasn't been trained on them.. already off to a shady start. Also no thanks to a per image fee.
This is not intended for photographers. This is made for people that pay a subscription to Adobe in order to run some images trough a plugin that requires no knowledge to use and does everything for you. Really smart. Not having a problem with the app, they have to make some money also. The people that use this and call themselvs photographers are just... bad.
Pye is one of the most successful wedding photographers on earth and his team shoots hundreds of weddings each year and they make millions of dollars and they use it.
@@FStoppers You got angry now? I know he is making millions of dollars. By the way, is he going also to the weddings or just his team? No disrespect intended. Great photographer, but I also guess that any wedding photographer using this app should tell to their clients that in post, photography don't require any knowledge anymore, just a smart app and you are set to make millions. In a short time we should forget about framing the shots also. The camera will do this for you. You just have to point it in the general direction of the subject. I dont want to call him lazy, I can tell that he has alot to manage with his businesses but i want to know what a photographer answers to "How did you edit this photo?" after using this app. "I dont know, but it has my name on it."
@@truevilmeow Ok, but you forget that most clients don't have enough knowledge about photography and this is why they hire you. I don't think that any respected photographer delivers the images in the same day or the second day. Because there is some work to be done in the post. Otherwise why should the client pay you thousands? Just for beeing there and framing some shots? The only thing now that requires knowledge is framing the shot, drive a car and be polite at the wedding.
Yeah if it was me I'd think it was funny, he's literally a small toddler crying which is totally normal and was shown for like 3 seconds. Chilllllllllllllllllll
These photos are easy to fix even with built-in LR algorithms.
In my experience, photos with a huge dynamic range and colour temperature difference are very difficult for LR and C1 autosettings. For example, direct sunlight on the face and chest is in a shadow at the same time, and photos with mixed colour temperature, when a person and a background have more than 1000 K difference.
PS: btw, thanks for the video, every time an interesting topic.
I think you should do this to crop sensor camera instead. Sony full frame in particular have a lot of dynamic range. Which gives even Lightroom a lot of room to fix photos. Heck try shooting with an old camera with limited capabilities. Canon 5d classic, Canon Xti. This will really show what Impossible can do.
That would be great to see! Especially considering many do not have the current model/newest cameras.
Would've LR auto-exposed more accurately if you had applied the preset before auto-exposing?
As is, the comparison feels a bit skewed tbh.
It was worse when I did that
wanted to say the same thing. never had this happen to me with neutral preset.. with an brightening preset sure..
I could totally see myself using this AI plugin. I only see 3 downsides or things to consider:
1) you need an internet connection - that is not possible everywhere if you are "on the road"
2) the quality of the correction heavily depends on the dynamic range of the sensor that you are using - granted that even Canon now comes closer to Sony and Nikon (also Sony sensors) but if you shoot on older cameras the AI cannot fix the image outside of the scope of the sensor (ISO noise, exposure, etc)
3) it only works in Lightroom and I prefer the color management of Capture One Pro for those kind of shoots - I would like to know if Pye is also considering opening it up to C1P
Otherwise it looks promising. Maybe I try it even if I don't like LR.
A better test would be to use jpg files instead of raw, because raw preserves a lot of info, so the terribly-looking photos are actually not that terrible internally.
How do we add the Impossible Things plugin to Lightroom Classic in the first place? The video is just assuming that one has already installed the Impossible Things and that its already showing up as a plugin in Lightroom. We need to know how to add the plugin first so that we catch up with your steps. Some are not even sure if the Impossible Thing is a standalone photo editing software which one can install on a computer or it can only work with other softwares like Lightroom. Thank you so much for the video. Its quite nice and interesting.
wow no reply, thats sayin SOMEthing
Great tool, but I don’t think that people want to be spending $120+ per month to be able to fix their wedding shots. Hell no.
Maybe if it was like a $20 a month type of thing then you then you could argue that it would be worth it, but definitely not at 0.06 cents per shot.
Definitely expensive for autoexposure + auto wb + batch preset applying
Cool program, but without an unlimited plan I have no interest in it for my workflow.
This is a pointless waste of money for mediocre results. You can achieve the same thing through batch processing with Lightroom, using auto-exposure, auto-white balance, and presets. The problem is that many photographers don't know the potential of Lightroom's own capabilities. It's unclear what the essence of artificial intelligence is here, except for the fact that the subscriber automates the program's capabilities rather than those of external processing resources. It seems more like using trendy words like "artificial intelligence," but in fact, we get ordinary automation and importing of simple preset settings, whether it's installed on the computer or read from the company's cloud.
Your kid looks just like you!! super cute.
Thanks!
As long as 2 things, 1 that its pay per image, and 2, that ther not actually charged for the image until export rather than after processing, this way one could make the comparison and choose which is better rather than paying for all the photos and deciding after processing that you wanna keep just 3 out of 4 of the impossible edits and end up wasting your money on some you won't end up keeping and exporting
does not look ABSOLUTE GARBAGE photos to me but just a coupla stops over/under exposed and white balance off both of which would take 10 seconds to change and sync or am i wrong?
Will fix any photo? All the images has the same error. What do you mean any photo? Where are the out of focus stuff, miss-focus, shake blur, closed eyes, severely over exposed etc? Is this just an ad for this software?
I don't want to be judgmental but all of your photos "just" have a wrong white balance (and need some pretty basic exposure corrections), which if you shoot in raw is pretty easy to fix (literally just 2 sliders). Additionally, if this program is intended to be used by professionals, then all these people know what they are doing so it is easy for them to fix such small mistakes. I totally get your point about editing thousands of photos but I believe this software is very useful just for small and quick corrections (I am not a professional so no strong opinions here). I believe that a "bad" photo is a photo that is completely blown out (or important details cannot be recovered) or a photo that is out of focus or a jpeg with completely wrong white balance or a photo shot in ISO 25600. How will this software "fix" something like that? Finally, I get the title "New AI Software Will Fix Any Photo" but I believe this is far from true. Again, I don't want to be harsh, I am just opening a discussion.
I don't know about you but when I was shooting weddings full time and had 3000 images of my own and 3000 from my second shooter, my editing would take 3-8 hours total. I then started outsourcing the culling and editing to an associate. I would totally pay $120 to have 2000 images automatically done. That's like 3% the cost of a $4,000 wedding. If it does what it claims, it's totally worth that. The only reason I might not use this is if my associate was willing to do it for $120 and I wanted to employ them but most people are charging more than that now. -P
@@FStoppers Sure, that's why I said no strong opinions since I am not a professional. For batch basic processing I'm sure that this software is a life saver. My main comments were about what would happen if a shot was "bad" due the issues I've mentioned and about your claim about the software fixing everything.
He did say that he was purposefully screwing up things like the white balance and exposure
@@jamwerxop def let this be known. the guy clearly wasnt listening
I see a lot of these AI software and only one particular type of photography. Is there anything for Event photography? Mixed lighting? I have used, "Imagin AI" no option for event photography, "Narrative Photo Culling" and even "Aftershoot" for culling. Manufacturers are only working on portraits. pretty much useless for Events. I know White balance is pretty subjective when it comes for indoor event photography and it would be really tough to create a white balance algorithm but would be nice to see that someone is working on it. :) I almost signed up for "Imagin AI" but you still have to go through and touch up and go over all the edits afterwords anyway. Lightroom auto sync and auto is pretty decent. Just back off the saturation, vibrance, and bring the shadows down about 20% after the auto sync. I really dislike the pay per image unless you have an editor that actually edits like you do. Especially if the exposure isn't even correct.
not to mention imagin doesn't offer roll overs, thats a big NAT, if not thee NAT
If you know your craft and only shoot low volume portrait sessions, this plug in would not be needed. I can see this tool being used for those running a high volume photo business like weddings and engagement sessions.
Would you suggest editing our own photos or hiring a professional retoucher?
I am sooo jealous as to how well you handle LR 😅
Is this only available in lightroom plugin? How to use it if I don't have lightroom?
Wondering when the big camera companies will implemet this kind of software directly on the camera. I mean, you could still have a RAW-image but the JPGs should come out like this. If Sony, Canon, Nikon are not really fast, some kind of a Tesla-like competitor will eat them for lunch.
It's almost as if presets don't care what photo you apply it to, it just changes values
2 questions - will it or is there another that will work Inside Apple photos ? All the ones i have tried either creates a new photo - thus updating all the metadata and dates - and creates 2 different ones in my library….. PLEASE Help !!
These are scanned old photos i am trying to Fix
Just like music, photos can be overly produced and poorly composed. Photos should be created and purchased with different styles in mind. You can tell when a photo is overly produced because it looks fake. You can tell when a song is overly produced because all the imperfections are gone. You decide what kind of art works for you. To me the best art has a human touch to it and not a computer’s
Well I looked at it and these photos was an easy fix, but I dont like that U have to select and send every photo that U R using. Buy a software with AI and do whatever U want with internet closed if U want...
Is this available as an app?
Your audience would love our WeShop Ai tool
It sends the photos to the cloud, so internet connection is required.
how we can activated the plug-in extras?
Nice. You should have done it with jpegs or smartphone pictures though. If you go out with a 1000 USD+ camera and know you shoot raw, you know how to edit the way this ML program does it.
Unfortunately it doesn't work with JPEGs
My respects!
Que tengo que hacer si cuando abro impossible things en lightroom me sala un mensaje de error 053. Como se corrige eso
It seems to do fine with underexposed shots. But otherwise, six cents a shot seems like you're over-paying.
What lens is this?
Idk. I’ve never even used Lr. I always use Ps and just edit and layer every single photo myself. I’ve tried presets but I’m just that anal that I just do it myself.
That's great if you don't shoot weddings. But for a wedding or high volume portrait photographer a program like this is a life saver.
Nobody would really be shooting that bad in RAW, try using the software on a JPG see how you go then?
Thank you for sharing😊. I go try this
Am I allowed to translate this video into Chinese and upload it to other Chinese websites without claiming copyright?
Double exposure on 35mm? Back in 2000 a few armatures with Average Intelligence got together under my leadership for a wedding. We all knew very little....except for one genius who thought he knew everything....and decided that when a roll of film was shot he would not fully wind it back into the can. Now the next guy would pick up a roll and the rest is no history. Any thoughts whether AI is up to the task?
Better than nothing. Seems impossible things is a little too warm.
Interesting someone would pour money into developing stuff like this, when more or less exactly the same is already in Lightroom's roadmap. Maybe already version 13.
I don't think Lightroom has any algorithms that use lighting conditions to apply presets and Ai automation to it. Without saying too much, I was privy to an early version of this software years ago that was partnered up with Canon cameras. The project eventually got dropped and now the proprietary tech is found in Impossible Things. I believe it is patented so I'm not sure many other companies will be able to use it, but I will say, having software figure out the specific lighting in a photo first is probably as important or even more important than recognizing a face or depth of field. As you can see in this video, Lightrooms current auto exposure and auto corrections doesn't always beat what Impossible Things is able to achieve in just the first few weeks of being released. -P
FANTASTIC VIDEO!!! FANTASTIC INFO!!!!! thanks for sharing!!!! 👌👌
The end of pros are close...
Love the fact that your kid is gonna grow up in PR. He looks like he’s having a blast. Great video, Lee. I’m also in PR and looking to collab. Sent you an email and IG DM. Also, I was on the fence about Imagen AI; you gave me some thinking material!
But this review is about Impossible things, not Imagen 😅
Does it only work in Lightroom?
I believe so
Fooey. I use captureone.
Woah
AI can't fix shot composition... Yet, I guess lol
When's the next CTC? 😁
Soon! Today is my birthday so but maybe we can do it before the end of the week! -P
@@FStoppers Yay. Happy birthday Patrick!
Their website says "The result is a model that recognizes and correctly edits in every common scenario a photographer faces, including tricky ones like mixed lighting, low light conditions, high dynamic range scenes, and more."
Pretty ingenuine to then say that dont do animals the model hasn't been trained on them.. already off to a shady start. Also no thanks to a per image fee.
First - scary but can be good
Your mom
Lol. Your wife!
@@039043 How dare you sir
Just sayin’ your son looks a lot like me… hey, you started it!
Good vid tho.
This is not intended for photographers. This is made for people that pay a subscription to Adobe in order to run some images trough a plugin that requires no knowledge to use and does everything for you. Really smart. Not having a problem with the app, they have to make some money also. The people that use this and call themselvs photographers are just... bad.
Pye is one of the most successful wedding photographers on earth and his team shoots hundreds of weddings each year and they make millions of dollars and they use it.
@@FStoppers You got angry now? I know he is making millions of dollars. By the way, is he going also to the weddings or just his team? No disrespect intended. Great photographer, but I also guess that any wedding photographer using this app should tell to their clients that in post, photography don't require any knowledge anymore, just a smart app and you are set to make millions. In a short time we should forget about framing the shots also. The camera will do this for you. You just have to point it in the general direction of the subject. I dont want to call him lazy, I can tell that he has alot to manage with his businesses but i want to know what a photographer answers to "How did you edit this photo?" after using this app. "I dont know, but it has my name on it."
@@soladeskinz9240 The client doesn't care how you edit it, they just want photos that they like.
@@soladeskinz9240 this is a very bad take lol please reconsider
@@truevilmeow Ok, but you forget that most clients don't have enough knowledge about photography and this is why they hire you. I don't think that any respected photographer delivers the images in the same day or the second day. Because there is some work to be done in the post. Otherwise why should the client pay you thousands? Just for beeing there and framing some shots? The only thing now that requires knowledge is framing the shot, drive a car and be polite at the wedding.
So you think your son is going to like being used here as some sort of joke when he is older?
Yeah if it was me I'd think it was funny, he's literally a small toddler crying which is totally normal and was shown for like 3 seconds. Chilllllllllllllllllll