Sweet Technology

A few years ago it became possible to remove clutter and unfortunately placed people from your images. This "cleaning up" of your pictures was an hours long task in Photoshop involving many advanced skills. While I learned to do it, it was far too labor intensive for anything but your most spectacular shots of world wonders that just happened to have tourists in front of them. It was something you'd never do for a throw away shot at Disneyland. Before Photoshop you just had to hang around for hours hoping to get a clear shot. All if this is behind us now. I've been goofing around with Adobe's new "Scene Cleaner" technology and I am just blow away. The pace of improvement in imaging science is unbelievable. What seemed like magic 5 years ago is now possible in under two minutes with all most no skill at all.

These two images are the same. The first is the original, the second the cleaned version. This took me about 2 minutes from start to finish. Amazing.