Has anyone tried Google AI for advice on how to do post processing

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Didn’t want to sidetrack Grahams post in the Talk Photography section but it made me think
I recently tried using Google AI for general advice on post processing specifically for processing band/gig images
This was completely out of my comfort zone as I normally shoot macro and wildlife
I used my Sony RX100 mk 1 and 6D mk2 at very high ISO, 6400 and higher, the Sony is normally pretty decent at low ISO but very noisy at those levels venue was almost dark so had no option
Actually ended up with reasonable results with DXO 8 following suggestions from Google AI
Since have tried using the AI for how to approach my zoo shots too , although the suggested settings were way off it did make me try a new approach
 
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I imagine AI being able to give reasonable advice on what to do with the picture as sometimes it handles the editing well, so by asking it for advice you're pretty much asking to describe what it would do. I personally haven't tried it but I used Chat GPT to colorize old family photos so that I wouldn't spend more time doing so in Photoglory and it handled them partially well, though some tweaks were still needed. It wasn't great with faces though I expected that. Looking for more suggestions is always great imo, if it goes wrong you don't have to stick to it, but it really might give you another perspective, so why not.
 
LCPete said:
although the suggested settings were way off it did make me try a new approach
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I think what you said above may answer your own question. If their is ever anything I struggle with in PS/LR I generally go to youtube, as their are tons of excellent instructors on there, obviously a few turkeys as well, so you have to choose wisely, I do have specific people I follow on there, and tend to stick to those few, but I don't think their is anything I've looked for on there, and not got results. AI on the other hand isn't always specific to what you want, and can tend to generalise to much, with specific subjects like photography/photo editing.
 
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I think what you said above may answer your own question. If their is ever anything I struggle with in PS/LR I generally go to youtube, as their are tons of excellent instructors on there, obviously a few turkeys as well, so you have to choose wisely, I do have specific people I follow on there, and tend to stick to those few, but I don't think their is anything I've looked for on there, and not got results. AI on the other hand isn't always specific to what you want, and can tend to generalise to much, with specific subjects like photography/photo editing.
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Good point, there isn’t so much content on DXO photolab but better than it used to be, will have a look again on you tube
DXO do have excellent videos on their site but I struggle sometimes with how to do the basics like masking and brushes to do local adjustments, with AI was able to just ask ‘How do I do this’ and normally got what I needed
 
LCPete said:
Thanks , I should have said though that I don’t use Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop
For the last few years I have moved to DXO and Affinity Photo
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If you take a deeper dive on youtube, you will find a lot of these instructors also use other software, DXO/Affinity/Onone etc etc
 
I use AI a lot for both the 9-5 and the 5-9 and whilst I never have used to for editing advice, I would if I needed to do something I hadn't done before.

AI isn't magic or even intelligent, it isn't also a single thing, AI editing in tools like light room is different to Large Language models like Google gemini and ChatGPT. Its a bit like your eyes and ears being used for different purposes. An LLM will at best give you some sort of statistical average of the information it can find on the web, we've all had some amazing results from AI and it certainly saves trawling through a load of web pages to find one that's relevant and that's the main reason I use it but it is easy to end up in something of a dead end.

Back in 1992, before the world wide web, one of the internet applications we used was Usenet, which as described as
"like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea. Massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
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I think that applies to AI today...
 
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