ChatGPT for general photo editing

[bcr5784]

Although I've occasionally used ChatGPT to create or "re-imagine" photos, I'd never used it for "legitimate" photo editing until ChatGPT mailed to suggest just that.

As a mainstream photo editor it's a non-starter IMO - especially as you need to spend £20 a month to do more than 5 images a day. BUT a brief test suggests that it is really good at removing lots of wires. Removing the odd wire is not an issue, but all of the apps I have or have tried make a poor fist of it when there are lots of wires. ChatGPT seems particularly good at that. Given the 5 image limit I haven't done enough tests to really test it, but I will be doing more research over the next few days.

Worth a look if wires are the bane of your life.

[StevieBee]

Lightroom and Photoshop now have a range of Ai driven tools that I have to say are pretty good. What I like about these compared to ChatGPT (which is also good) is that you have much more direct control over what gets done. Obviously that comes with a price tag too but if you're looking to spend then worth looking at that!

[bcr5784]

StevieBee said:

Lightroom and Photoshop now have a range of Ai driven tools that I have to say are pretty good. What I like about these compared to ChatGPT (which is also good) is that you have much more direct control over what gets done. Obviously that comes with a price tag too but if you're looking to spend then worth looking at that!

I'm not keen on paying for any subscription software . For most of the things I do Photolab does a very good job - but is pretty hopeless for object removal. My Android phone does a quite unbelievably good job of most object removal, and, especially, in recreating a completely believable replacement backgrounds. These two apps do pretty much all the image adjustment I want EXCEPT removal of wires from images with a lot of them. This is where I see ChatGPT fitting into my workflow..

[Dave Hedgehog]

I would say light room with AI

then Gemini nano banana 2

then canva

[bcr5784]

As much for a laugh as anything else I thought I'd give ChatGPT an "impossible" edit. So I gave it this image


I gave ChatGPT a single command to remove the wires - and this is what it produced with no further editing



I'm not going to suggest the result is a masterpiece but it's much better than I expected.

[Derek Smith]

bcr5784 said:

As much for a laugh as anything else I thought I'd give ChatGPT an "impossible" edit. So I gave it this image


I gave ChatGPT a single command to remove the wires - and this is what it produced with no further editing



I'm not going to suggest the result is a masterpiece but it's much better than I expected.

I'm impressed.

I'm a sad old bloke with a camera, and take minutes to set up a shot, but even I take the occasional candid one. I might miss something in shot - my camera bag is one of the most photographed objects in my images - but such things are easy to eradicate. I've shot racing cars through chicken wire fences and was limited to where I could stand, ie, close to the fence. I would have worn out the software back then.

Food for thought. I'm more than happy with Affinity, and for video, Resolve Studio, but it's reassuring to know that if I've messed up an essential image, there's hope.

My age, hope is enough.