Photo Editing - How Does The Future Hold?

There is a change in the air in the photo editing software. For the first time in over a decade, Photoshop, which dominates the photo editing so that his name is synonymous with alterations, be vulnerable to new competitors. How is this possible? Photoshop dominates high end photo editing because it is the industry standard, around which users, educators and gurus gather to form a vast network of knowledge about software. The intellectual investment of millions of users, it is difficult for other software to locate.

So much, in fact, it would take a new and much easier and better things to do before a standard like Photoshop could be challenged at all. Photoshop, and correspond to the traditional image editing programs like Paint Shop Pro has grown into a complex of large collections. And 'where the complexity of the entire industry, and Photoshop "how to" papers, tutorial sites, books, etc., has grown around the software.

This is both strength and weakness in Photoshop. The tool set is large and powerful, so nearly all the power is possible, but, and this is a very large, but only if the user has the knowledge, expertise and, especially, the time required for the effect he wants. In addition, most Photoshop tools are essentially electronic versions of traditional stencils, brushes, etc. that artists have always used. Like a brush is useless unless its owner has the technical competence to know how to use it, so are the tools of Photoshop useless without extensive technical training.

But the software does not need to be complicated and stupid. In fact, just as the artists of the past had human assistants, so that the software is properly trained, can also help artists in their work. For example, the software Portrait Professional has been designed to automatically beautify faces in photographs. To achieve this, the software is actually "trained" in human beauty, with many hundreds of portraits. So the software has learned what is usually statistically faces are more or less beautiful. This is very different than the typical photo editing tools that do not have a built-in concept of beauty at all.

So how does it work in practice? After the user has scored five key points on the face, the software analyzes the face has to be improved, and compares it with its statistical beauty model. Based on the difference between the face and the model, the software creates a slider to adjust as the various aspects of the face as needed. For example, a slider to adjust the jaw line. The effect of this control in the jaw can vary depending on the jaw that looks like: bulking it if it is low or reduced if there is a double chin. In the sense that the software "knows" how to help button up artist to enhance the image.

This approach provides an intelligent program that creates 'custom' tools depending on the needs of specific topics is a radical change in image editing software. As software becomes more intelligent, the requirement of a purely technical skills, and reduces the focus is shifting from just a vision. This in turn will impact on photography and graphics as a whole. Just as digital cameras, time has reduced the need for specialist photographers, as well as a huge increase in the number of actual photos taken, so photo editing software to be more intelligent and easier to use, more photographers and designers to make their own tinker with, and the need for professional retouching artists will decrease.

And in all this is a good thing. We will move from a world where the mastery of complex technical skills is a prerequisite for photo editing in a world were the technical stuff is easy, and where what matters is the quality of vision of the photographer. And freedom to tinker and endless tutorials Photoshop techniques can only be a good thing.

So many interesting times for Adobe Photoshop and image editing facility. Photoshop will evolve or die? Whatever the future, the emergence of easy to use, cheaper alternatives to Photoshop such as Portrait Professional can only be good news for photographers and creative throughout.