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I think it would be amazing if Adobe incorporated some of these projects (Neural Style, etc.) as part of their "Creative Cloud" offerings...actually compute it in the cloud and return the result back to Photoshop.

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I don't know whether you noticed it, but the paper reveals it is co-authored by people from Adobe. There very well might be intentions towards that later on.

That might take years

Adobe moves pretty fast when they want to. Take content aware fill for example. It went from a presentation at ACM SIGGRAPH to Adobe hiring some of the people who wrote the paper to a working feature in Photoshop in about a year.

@dagwTrue @coldtea True However the technology is not ready yet. Takes too long to render* and needs too much VRAM (=> limited resolution, varying on the current GPU).

But a consumer-grade plugin with an online renderer might be feasible for now.

* Fast solutions include a pre-training step that can take days. Would be weird to ask the user to do this

> Would be weird to ask the user to do this

Alternatives to training include downloading the trained model. It could be a big download but an overnight download is not that weird to ask users to do.

> Alternatives to training include downloading the trained model. It could be a big download but an overnight download is not that weird to ask users to do. Or keep the pretrained network on superpowerful cloud machines.

Adobe has incorporated research stuff they've shown to the public as mere papers/demos into PS in just 1-2 versions several times.

That would be great. I was actually thinking of coding a plugin like that

code one for darktable or gimp.

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