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Here is a link to a video about using "Vision Mentor" to help you process a photograph based on "your" vision of what you want the final print to look like.
It's 37 minutes long, so a bit of a watch, but having watched it (after initially dismissing the idea) I'm wondering if there isn't some value in it.
Before watching it, (if you have even considered it) it's probably worth wading through my comments below the link.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uTmLegwk2g
Blake Rudis, a longtime YouTuber, provider of online courses, and Photoshop panels, has developed this software (you pay per session, and it's online only).
Blake studied Fine Art, and started life as a painter. He became rather notorious for his over the top HDR photographs. which he now admits to being rather ashamed of, and now runs an online community for photographers called F64 Academy. Part of his offerings is a 1;1 photo critique, which he charges $247 for. The AI-driven "Vision Mentor" is trained to give the same sort of advice that you would get directly from Blake, but at about $2 a picture.
I have completed several of his courses, many of which come with Photoshop panels that automate things learned during the course. I found the courses very good, but tend not to use the panels. One panel, "The Visionary Panel", featured in the video, is a customised compilation of multiple panels suited to Blake's workflow.
The "Vision Mentor" software begins by asking you what you want from the photograph you are asking for help with. This is written as a statement, which can include describing the reason you took the photograph, the mood you are trying to achieve, the story you are trying to tell, important features you want to emphasise etc.
It then allows you to upload several photographs and suggests which of them best matches your statement.
After this, you select a single photograph, and it suggests how you could process it. The assessment includes information on colour theory (ie does it suit a complementary or analogous, etc colour scheme) and a map indicating how the viewer's eye is likely to move through the picture.
After processing, the software will reassess the picture in terms of your original statement and refine its advice until you are happy with the results.
I thought that "Vision Mentor" chose the wrong picture to best meet Blake's brief, and at the end of the video Blake agrees and his choice matched mine.
It also analyses all the pictures you have asked for help with and identifies "recurring habits".
I have never been that fond of Blake's photographs, finding his "boldness" with colour a bit too much for me, and "Vision Mentor" suggests that Blake's recurring habit is to make his pictures too colourful and over-saturated.
I found it more interesting than expected.
It is probably useful to be forced into describing my expectations from a photograph in more detail than I would normally.
After you wade through the AI gibberish, it seemed to have some useful things to say, and,
Although the technical advice was pretty generic (with a bit of a PS bias) it could well be useful in giving direction when you are trying to achieve a specific effect and don't know how.
It's 37 minutes long, so a bit of a watch, but having watched it (after initially dismissing the idea) I'm wondering if there isn't some value in it.
Before watching it, (if you have even considered it) it's probably worth wading through my comments below the link.
Blake Rudis, a longtime YouTuber, provider of online courses, and Photoshop panels, has developed this software (you pay per session, and it's online only).
Blake studied Fine Art, and started life as a painter. He became rather notorious for his over the top HDR photographs. which he now admits to being rather ashamed of, and now runs an online community for photographers called F64 Academy. Part of his offerings is a 1;1 photo critique, which he charges $247 for. The AI-driven "Vision Mentor" is trained to give the same sort of advice that you would get directly from Blake, but at about $2 a picture.
I have completed several of his courses, many of which come with Photoshop panels that automate things learned during the course. I found the courses very good, but tend not to use the panels. One panel, "The Visionary Panel", featured in the video, is a customised compilation of multiple panels suited to Blake's workflow.
The "Vision Mentor" software begins by asking you what you want from the photograph you are asking for help with. This is written as a statement, which can include describing the reason you took the photograph, the mood you are trying to achieve, the story you are trying to tell, important features you want to emphasise etc.
It then allows you to upload several photographs and suggests which of them best matches your statement.
After this, you select a single photograph, and it suggests how you could process it. The assessment includes information on colour theory (ie does it suit a complementary or analogous, etc colour scheme) and a map indicating how the viewer's eye is likely to move through the picture.
After processing, the software will reassess the picture in terms of your original statement and refine its advice until you are happy with the results.
I thought that "Vision Mentor" chose the wrong picture to best meet Blake's brief, and at the end of the video Blake agrees and his choice matched mine.
It also analyses all the pictures you have asked for help with and identifies "recurring habits".
I have never been that fond of Blake's photographs, finding his "boldness" with colour a bit too much for me, and "Vision Mentor" suggests that Blake's recurring habit is to make his pictures too colourful and over-saturated.
I found it more interesting than expected.
It is probably useful to be forced into describing my expectations from a photograph in more detail than I would normally.
After you wade through the AI gibberish, it seemed to have some useful things to say, and,
Although the technical advice was pretty generic (with a bit of a PS bias) it could well be useful in giving direction when you are trying to achieve a specific effect and don't know how.
