- What is up people, Dunna here.
And today we're gonna try and be
as lazy as humanly possible.
Sounds pretty good, right?
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Recently someone reached out to me
and asked if I wanted to try this piece
of software called Gemia.
Maybe it's Gem-ia.
Aunt Jem-ee-ma.
I'm not sure how to pronounce it.
But essentially, this software is designed
to use artificial intelligence to edit your photos for you.
Which means no more fiddling around in Lightroom.
Provided that this actually works as it promises.
Now, I'm a bit of a control freak so typically
I like being in Lightroom and having all those little pieces
that I can move around and decide
what's gonna happen with it.
But I thought you know what,
it would be a really cool experiment
to see what would happen if I took some
of my photos and saw how
this artificial intelligence decided to edit them.
So I've got eight photos up here in Lightroom
and I've done kind of a regular edit,
nothing too special to them.
And we're gonna take those same eight photos
and put them over into Gemia,
put them into the software,
and see how it chooses
and kind of compare the differences.
It's time to find out if we, as photo editors,
can be replaced by robots.
Let's do it!
So like I said, I've got eight photos up here.
And I tried to put a little bit of variation
in the ones that I chose so that we can see
how it handles different types of photos.
Now once you download Gimea, it's really simple.
It's gonna pop up in the middle of the screen here,
and you just browse images.
Now right off the bat, something that I was worried
about is that it wouldn't be able to handle raw images,
but everything's raw here and it handles it just fine.
So let's grab that picture of myself first.
And it takes a second to process.
I can already hear my laptop fan going crazy
because I've got both Lightroom and this program up,
plus I'm screen recording.
It says, detecting objects, analyzing photos,
correcting defects, doing magic.
I like that its doing magic.
So this is the raw photo,
you can see that I was using a prism at the time,
so I got some funky stuff happening on the right side.
And then this is what it did with the edit.
And then if we were to compare that to my edit,
obviously I went a little crazy with my edit
compared to what they did.
I made it a lot warmer.
And on the right hand side, you've got a couple of options.
You can retouch the skin, which intelligently chooses
if there are any blemishes and that kind of stuff
and gets rid of them.
And then you've got basically filters
you can put it through.
So, I have a funny feeling like this one
will be the closest to what my original edit was.
It does a little bit of processing again,
and then we've got our photo.
Eh, it's okay.
You can definitely see some abnormalities,
and you don't have any control, as far as I can tell,
to push it any further or to do anything
more creative with it.
At the very top here, you have the ability to dial it back,
to kind of play with how much of the effect you get.
And let's see what happens if I retouch the skin.
It's thinking.
Yeah, it definitely got rid of my little moles
that I have on my face, or freckles
or whatever you wanna call those.
Smooth things out a little bit.
Okay, okay.
I don't know that this was a perfect example
of what it's capable of, but let's try another one.
Let's add one here.
No?
Open.
Okay, so it's processing.
This is where you get to have a sip of coffee.
Okay, so before...
And after the basic processing.
So mostly, it seems to have just added
a bunch of contrast, which I don't necessarily mind.
Let's see what happens if I hit skin retouch,
considering that our subject is facing the other way.
I assume that when it uses the "artificial intelligence"
to decide where to retouch skin and that kind of stuff,
it's probably looking for faces.
So the fact that Megan is turned the other way,
I don't know if it would be able to detect it.
You can turn this on and off,
but it doesn't seem to have done much.
And now if we compare that to my edit.
Again, I went a lot more like warm,
it was a nice, bright day out.
I wanted to kinda show that the sun was nice and warm.
And I also went with a lot less contrast
and kind of a more faded look,
which is just kind of the style that I like.
Now let's pick one of these guys and see what it looks like.
Onyx sounds nice.
Okay, a little black and white action.
Let's try Pyrite.
Pirate?
You can see some kind of weird stuff happening
in the colors because of the filter
that we're putting on top of it.
On this right side, these filters that they have
kinda seem like they're basically like Instagram filters.
Alright, let's grab the rest of these.
Pretty sure I can open multiple at the same time.
So this one being a landscape, hopefully it would treat
it a little bit differently because obviously
there's no skin in this one, so.
Little bit glitchy, it won't actually let me push
all the way to see the entire image.
Unless I make it smaller on the screen.
Oh and now I can't get at it.
Now again, it's added a pile of contrast.
It did do some stuff with the blues in the sky.
Let's try Agate and see if that
does anything cool to this photo.
And that sky is like so intense.
It's not bad without the filter on it,
but I am glad that they have it in two different stages.
There's kind of like the correction, where it sets
your contrast and those kinds of things,
and your white balance.
And it tries to fix for different objects.
But then also that you can do the filter stuff after.
So it's kind of like the way that I color grade video.
Where you do the color correction, and then the color grade.
Now if we look at how I did this one,
again, mine's a lot more kinda faded
and it's got that kind of vintage fade look to it.
I made my blues a little bit more teal than they had
and I didn't try to bring back so much of the sky.
'Cause I find that just looks...
it's a little too much for me.
For example, I would still want to edit this photo after.
As far as like, cleaning things up
and getting things looking half decent,
it does a decent job.
Let's try the big sky, here.
That's the original, that's how I edited it.
Edit-ed-ed-ed it?
And then if we hope over to Gemia,
again the original,
and here's what they did.
It's not really even that far off
of what I did with the photo.
I think they did a little bit more de-hazing.
You can tell again, that there's a lot more
kind of contrasty sections in there.
Maybe bumped up the sharpness a little bit.
And again, I made my blues a little bit more teal,
they kept them blue.
See what happens if we go Emerald.
Now our blues are teal, but also so is everything else.
It would be cool if they would have these filters
and then allow you to just dial in just the filter.
But when you add the filter to it,
when you dial this back, it's dialing back
not just to the corrected version,
but all the way to the raw version.
Let's try a puppy here.
So that's before, that's after.
I think it did a pretty good job of that one.
There's not a whole lot to do,
just a little bit of contrast,
theirs is a little bit brighter than mine was.
I actually might like their edit better on this one
than I did on my own.
So here's a photo of Connor,
wearing the new Resonate merchandise.
And here's what they did with it.
So there's the raw again,
here's the fixed, and now let's hit that skin retouch
and see what it does.
Hey, so that's pretty cool.
It did a really nice job of cleaning up
just some of the kind of blemishes and stuff on his skin.
I had done that in Lightroom.
Again, I like to go a little bit warmer.
We had that outdoor kind of look,
I wanted it to be that way.
It would be really cool within this program,
if you could actually do some of that stuff afterwards.
So you're like, basic correction, and then you can be like,
okay, well I want it a little bit warmer,
those kinds of things, the way that you can
in Lightroom, hit the auto button and then adjust
from there if you want to.
So overall, I think that this was kind of a cool experiment
to see if artificial intelligence, if robots essentially,
can replace me as an editor.
I don't really think that that's what's happening here.
But it is nice to just get something done real quick.
Let's say I had a whole bunch of photos
that I just needed the corrections done real quick,
you could slam them into Gemia,
or Gi-my-a, or Jemima, or whatever it is.
Personally, I don't think this is for me.
But if you're the kind of person who really likes
to take photos and really wants something kinda edited
but you don't like to go through the editing process,
this could be really cool,
and as far as I can tell, it's really affordable.
I think it's only like 30 dollars or something like that.
You can do it either online, which can be handy
if you travel a lot, or you can do it from the program
that you download to either your MAC or PC.
I'll leave a link in the description
if this is something that interests you.
And as always, I wanna hear from you guys.
Let me know in the comments what you thought
of this program that allows you to essentially
use a robot to do your editing for you.
Thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you next time.
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