[HN Gopher] Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI-powered Deband fea...
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Pixelmator Pro gets a magical, AI-powered Deband feature
 
Author : ingve
Score  : 42 points
Date   : 2022-12-21 22:08 UTC (51 minutes ago)
 
web link (www.pixelmator.com)
w3m dump (www.pixelmator.com)
 
| frereubu wrote:
| Slightly OT, but the one thing I hate about watching films on
| streaming services is the banding on the images. Any relatively
| dark scene with gradations of lighting in the background is a
| mess of shifting lines. I'd love to see something like this built
| in to a native Netflix client... although I realise hell will
| freeze over before that's a reality.
 
  | scaredginger wrote:
  | I don't see why clever video post-processing couldn't help with
  | this. Why do you say hell will freeze over? This seems like a
  | much easier solution for them than to increase bitrates and
  | thus, bandwidth
 
| TutleCpt wrote:
| It's a cheesy marketing tactic to refer to anything as magical.
| Apple started this trend. There's nothing magical going on.
| Clever maybe but certainly not magic.
 
  | toomuchtodo wrote:
  | Arthur C Clarke would disagree.
 
| cmer wrote:
| How do Pixelmator Pro vs Affinity Photo compare these days?
 
| throwaway675309 wrote:
| I haven't tried this one yet, but in the last few months they
| finally released the ability to open up animated GIF files, which
| was one of the last reasons I was still using Photoshop.
| 
| Pixelmator has been my go to graphic design application on my M1
| Mac for the past year now and it feels good to cut the Adobe
| cord.
 
| make3 wrote:
| very cool application
 
| vletal wrote:
| On mobile there is no visible difference in the interactive
| example on the web. Before/After looks exactly the same (iPhone
| 13).
| 
| Maybe use a zoomed example on mobile?
 
  | aliston wrote:
  | That's odd - I am seeing a pretty clear difference on iPhone
  | 13, iOS 16.1.
 
| bee_rider wrote:
| I wonder if it will ever get to the point where we specifically
| as a lossy compression algorithm generate images that can be
| enhanced into what we want. "What is the smallest image that
|  will blow up into the image I want" might
| be an interesting question.
 
  | madrox wrote:
  | Finally "enhance enhance enhance" won't just be a meme from
  | CSI.
 
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