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PhotoSketch Site Converts Your Doodles Into Reality

by Warren Riddle on October 8, 2009 at 04:01 PM


Photoshop allows tech-savvy folks to effortlessly manipulate and create their own fantastic, funny, and sometimes offensive images, but mastering the expensive software can be incredibly tricky (and time-consuming). Seamlessly integrating different images into one realistic picture is nearly impossible, even for the experts.

A group of Chinese computer science students, though, has created an amazing program that enables even the most unskilled Photoshoppers fans to create incredible images that actually don't appear obviously altered (check out the video after the break). Users merely draw a rudimentary sketch of what they wish to create, add a couple of text labels, and then the program, using Internet searches, creates a composite of photos retrieved from the Web. (The site is currently down because of heavy traffic, so, sorry, you can't play with it just yet.) The program even incorporates an image-filtering system that discards anomalous and inappropriate results.

While this may disappointingly eliminate some of those hilariously botched Photoshop jobs that people do love to ridicule, PhotoSketch should create plenty more entertaining ethical and journalistic conundrums to take their place. [From: Mashable, via Download Squad]

Tags: image manipulation, ImageManipulation, Photoshop, PhotoSketch, top

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