Caturday 91: AI Reveals Kitty

Whatever one thinks of AI, it is here for better or worse. I have found it very helpful in some searches. It also assists me to so some things faster in photo editing — things that I could once do manually (or in theory I could) but I can do faster and better with AI. For example: if I want to brighten a person just a little, I can do it more efficiently with AI, which can select and mask the person, so that I can then do what I wish: ie brighten. While I, supposedly, could always do that before, selecting manually was both time-consuming but also not as accurate.

As is my wont, I got carried away with the background info in the first ↑ paragraph, so onto my little presentation for the day.

While I was lingering (not malingering) up in my den with my wonky back, Sue was attending to the planters — getting them ready for the bedding annuals that we shall soon purchase. She happened to look up into the tree where she spied a very pretty kittycat that had navigated itself to a spot where the young robins like to hang out.

Puss was partly hidden, and I wondered if AI might reveal him or her. I used the remove tool in Lightroom to get rid of the branch, and it filled in a good approximation of the rest of the cat.

I was happy with it but then thought that the new eye (left to us) could be better. I experimented with various fixes but eventually just cloned and flipped the right eye.

Trying to improve the little eye with my human brain and hands took much, much longer that it took AI to make the cat. I had to work through various processes until I eventually decided to simply clone and flip the right eye. 

The lesson, or one lesson, might be that humans and artificial intelligence work best together.

Happy Caturday! It's been awhile since Lacey left us, but we do remember.