Scribbler wrote:
I'm amazed and I don't understand how's that even possible. I know that this type of videos don't fit exactly in this category, but I think I posted it in the right place since this kind of technology will help a lot in the retouching process.

Anyway, take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oie1ZXWceqM

Around the world Graphic Designers are quaking in their soon to be unemployed boots!

Marin Photography NYC wrote:
That's pretty cool! How do I get that program?

I'm imagining that you can use that on a model and pose her anyway you like!

The profile of objects currently has to be 'regular'; they showed how a tube of toothpaste caused problems.

Going to be a little while before this will be practical for irregular object like people--but it'll probably  be used to help with a lot of product work before then.

Grin Without a Cat wrote:
Just having a misplaced shadow in the image screws up the whole operation.

Not necessarily.

https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thre … st17914089

Peano wrote:
Not necessarily.

https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thre … st17914089

Bravo Peano,
this is great example about shadows , many people don't understand these things.

But also artist Green without a cat has great post about shadows and reflections.

Shadows and reflections sometimes can be so difficult .
For example check this file from web on this link

http://www.google.com/imgres?start=139& … =140&ty=33

As we can see from this link above , here we have nice Jeep captured in the forest where we have very problematic shadows , highlights and reflection from trees and leaves on the car glass.
So we want here to make quick extraction , we want to convert Jeep in 3D model with automatic rendering .
Theoretically we can make that with some software , we can make quick extraction and rendering like it is.
But what about if we want to make composite work with that new 3D Jeep model for example with Sahara background .
At Sahara backgrounds we don't have trees , leaves , just sand and sky.
So which automatic software will clean trees and leaves shadows and reflections from the car and make automatic 3D Jeep model with  transparent car glass without shadows and reflections from trees and leaves.
We want in Sahara desert new 3D Jeep model with transparent car glass where we can see through car glass sky or sand, we don't want in Sahara desert car with trees and leaves shadows and reflections on the car glass.

So which automatic software can do that, except hours and hours ( or days and days) of highly skilled handmade work in software.

ST Retouch wrote:
You can do all these steps in some other 2d/3d software but you need more time to do job, but with that programs you have full control of edges and shadows , because you control all steps and situation.
I am always reserved with quick steps of extraction because quick steps make too much halo edges on file.

What does appear advantageous, though, is the ability to easily duplicate existing elements and move them/manipulate them in a virtual 3D space.

Even if all the edges require exactly as much clean up as they would without this functionality--as appears likely--the 3D transforms are going to save time and reduce the minimum drawing skill level for that kind of composite.

Nevertheless, it's an interesting proof of concept; actual results will rely on execution in some future tool.