Photo editing speed hack - Imagen AI

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Imagen AI is an AI application and service that makes editing large collections of images fast and easy. You can upload your own sample images to build your "editing style" or choose from Imagen's many Talent AI profiles to get a look for your photographs. Imagen will upload your images, analyze them in minutes and you can download the AI adjustments into Lightroom. This is one of the most useful cases of AI that I've seen with any software. The quality is good and it saves you time.
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[@ImagenAI]

Thank you for sharing such an incredible view of AI and what Imagen is doing to help photographers. ❤

[@mazichriskc]

Do y'all support Capture One yet?

[@ImagenAI]

@@mazichriskc Not yet, but it's in active development.

[@josephhawk1]

so if I'm uploading a couple thousand photos of my work, is that all restricted to only being used for me (like my own personal database)? I've been hearing stories about artists work being scraped from the internet to go into these databases for AI and I'd like to avoid that type of thing happening where my work is being used for other's projects.

[@ImagenAI]

@@josephhawk1 What you are hearing stories about is completely unrelated to what we offer. With Imagen, your edit data is only used for our AI to create an AI editing profile for you to use. No one has access to use it without your permission. In fact, we do not have a profile sharing feature at all. We are working on one, that each customer controls themselves.

[@birianination7097]

@@ImagenAI why not charge just on subscription cost instead on per photo. Trust me, charging per photo will bring you down when your rivals come and charge monthly subscription only.

[@joseph-the-seventh]

Would be interesting to see a comparison between Imagen AI adjustments and LR's native "auto enhance" on the same image (and if it's worth paying extra for Imagen).

[@rvanstar]

“Nothing is set in stone” As a photographer for 30 years, am somewhat concerned with Ai. Individualism, creativity and privacy come to mind.

[@luisarmandotorres6367]

Agreed

[@VeinsnGains]

I edit my photos myself and I really enjoy doing that. In addition to digital photography, I still take analog photos. I also scan and process the negatives. It is fun. I like the craftsmanship in photography. As a hobby photographer, AI is completely uninteresting for me personally.

[@alanoconnor859]

And so it begins....low end photo retouching as a job disappears. Next accountants, copywriters, language translators etc etc. White collar armageddon within five years. Fun times

[@ahsanabbasphotography]

Fascinating where Ai is heading, thanks for sharing Ted!

[@6Eternal9]

Wouldn't Lightroom do the same thing as this software does? Like, just select any star group you have made and select all pictures with auto sync on, and it will automatically edit all the pictures within a few minutes.

[@alexanderpons9246]

Oh wow, this somewhat reminded me of a comment a One Hour Photo Lab Technician once told me which was when Digital arrived many Photographers had to process their own images. When One Hour Labs developed the roll of film the Technicians had to then print the 4X6 making general decissions to make that 4X6 look good. Here we are two decades after, thank you Ted Forbes for all you share here in this great channel of yours!

[@1kwords]

Wow! The beard suits you really well!

[@ImagenAI]

Agreed!

[@MichaelORourkeProd]

The beard is a real-time effect- rendered by AI.

[@PaulParkinson]

Does Imagen-AI make use of my images elsewhere? if so, HOW? What images rights am I giving up when I upload 3000 images to their servers? I've tried to find the answer to that question without success. In fact, it's worse than that. What I found is AI image tools pillaging copyright from artists without recourse. So right now, without answers, this is not for me.

[@boristahmasian9604]

Excellent points Paul. These companies are so clever. They are going to use my images to profit from and charge me for the privilege! Absolutely brilliant! I stopped showing my images on Facebook immediately after I found out they can do whatever they want with my images (including monetizing) without even asking me! Correct me if I am wrong.

[@ImagenAI]

@@boristahmasian9604 We do not use your images for anything beyond creating a Personal AI Profile for you to use for yourself.

[@ImagenAI]

We do not use your images without permission. Your images are used to train your Personal AI Profile. Feel free to reach out to support if you need more details.

[@PaulParkinson]

@@ImagenAI Sorry but that is a non-answer. Do I provide permission in the legal verbiage I will have to agree to? i.e. "without permission" means I can't use your software or services without giving permission? I'd rather have the conversation in public, here, than go through a probably over-worked support team.

[@bruce-le-smith]

@@PaulParkinson Agreed, this is a good public forum for a company to enter into dialogue with potential clients. I finally found the Terms of Use document on their web site, and page 3 had some reassuring language. But the Imagen AI team should have been able to provide those quotes here more quickly than I could find them.

[@Patrick-jj5nh]

Looks very useful and I am actually very enthusiastic about AI art etc however I think it's quite a shortcoming not to mention what sort of arrangement you enter into when you upload your images to Imagen AI? Are they allowed to keep/use your images to train their own AI(s)? Are they allowed to sell on that data? Who profits from this? Will the photographers/creators see any benefit from this data collection?

[@ImagenAI]

If you create a Personal AI Profile with your editing style it's only available to you. The available Talent AI Profiles are made in partnership with the photographers.

[@boristahmasian9604]

Paul Parkinson raised the same question. Credit to Imagen, they responded very fast to the questions. I do not do weddings anymore, but I can see this working for wedding work. The cost is reasonable and the time saving would be huge.

[@RichardSilvius]

This is amazing, BUT… one of the big problems with the explosion in AI tools recently has been the lack of any standards, regulations or IP law governing the use of images training AI algorithms. This has resulted in AI copying artists styles without their knowledge or consent - and even called into question whether work made by a human artist was indeed “real”. Something to think about as you upload your images to a service like this. They may be providing you an image editing service, but more than likely they are also using your images to train their AI, and you don’t necessarily know how that algorithm might be used in the future. We live in a time where corporations say one thing and do another, or where one company buys another company and decides to override the terms of service… The next thing you know maybe your images are getting used to train face recognition software for police databases or some other thing you might not have thought about and possibly don’t agree with.

[@serhiinova1120]

Agree with you, need to be more careful and responsible about AI. That isn't too safe as we think.

[@stuartshook3614]

Not surprisingly @ImagenAi didn’t respond to this comment.

[@bala1000mina]

Very much appreciated Ted! Very helpful and informative video! God bless and good luck!

[@xhynetuseinovski]

Highly doubt well known photographers are going to use this. But thanks for the video you always do a good job! 🙏🏻

[@ImagenAI]

Many already are 🙂

[@ArminHirmer]

interesting for sure, thanks for showing ted

[@pascalthiebaud]

Just a thought, could we imagine a day when in the "stay at home AI" application I will write in the field : eagle-Colorado-winter-golden light-mountain- aspen tree Click the button and boom the beautiful eagle there on my screen or the postman delivering the print I wonder where is the limit with AI.🤔 Probably we have our own limits but when I see that AI can create, a painting or a piece of music and probably a book I’m asking me do we still need humanity? For me photography it’s an experience and creativity on the field and creativity in post processing. …I imagine a wedding with a robot with the instructions: take a picture of everybody when they are smiling… Maybe but when this robot will exist is wedding will still exist? 😀 It was just thoughts of a man getting old surrounded by books of poetry and sacred music, looking up at a cloudy sky where his thoughts are lost... Yes where are the limits…?

[@pascalthiebaud]

Thanks User and what is your thoughts about that?

[@baharam98]

WOW! This is really time saving and nice. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to try Imagen AI.

[@ImagenAI]

Amazing!

[@JLStreetDoc]

Love the beard!! You should definitely keep it.

[@fintanusa]

What if you don't use Light room???

[@DeonteScottFoundation]

When will they make an app that way I could use it on my iPhone?

[@meyers323]

Interesting tech but paying service fees and subscriptions are such a headache nowadays. It might be worth it if you don't want to build out your own Lightroom profiles or presets.

[@bruce-le-smith]

😅tldr: agreed! Agreed, so many people want a "small" percentage of my paycheque each month, but there's only so many times I can slice that pie into smaller pieces... Too many things are leased now instead of bought. So this still appears to be a tool for professional photographers, who would pass administration time and service fee costs onto their clients. I do get that the data centres powering these AI tools are expensive to operate (leases, energy, equipment, maintenance, staff, professional services, etc.), and the company's R&D time is a cost that needs to be recuperated, and that's why there's a fee per image. But I totally agree that asking customers to manage one more profile with linked charge card information is a headache. That was the nice thing about a one-time purchase and a perpetual license for a specific version of an application - At least you could save up, buy it, and then run it as long as you could to get your money's worth (and more) out of it. I wish digital companies would bring that incentive back: Being able to pay a one time fee and then use a tool so much that it made you money instead of just costing you money. Like buying a 'nice piece of glass' and using it for years. Perhaps the outsourced editing community will just incorporate this tool into their workflows, and hopefully lower their prices? For example: if they could charge 1 hour of time, and do the bulk of the work with a tool like this in 15 minutes, then they could increase their turn-around time and still be making money. And photographers might accept the cost of 1 hour or professional editing because they could continue to focus on real world photography?

[@acidtears]

Aka if you don't want to develop your own style lol

[@BuroAan]

It is modern slavery.

[@HarryVitebski]

What about a bracketed images? Would this software merge them for me? I have massive shootings, like 1000+ images, and all of them are bracketed x3. So it is actually 3,000 images total, and just to preview them is a big time consuming process.

[@boristahmasian9604]

Thank you Ted. Love your channel and I am a huge fan. I thought the AI editing concept is brilliant and copied the link to this video to share "the good news" with my photographer friends. Then I read Paul Parkinson's comment. Now I am not sure if I want to do that.

[@ImagenAI]

Please see our reply to Paul.

[@jimmcd1101]

I bet Ralph Gibson would LOVE this app lol

[@sophiaterra-ziva7891]

I just downloaded it and I can’t start using it. It doesn’t let me import my photos to start editing. 🤔

[@zakariabentahar5014]

Thank you very much for sharing such important information. Do we have an Ai photo editor with adobe products

[@lindab8063]

Thank-you. Can I use it with Photoshop Elements?

[@emmanuelharbor2350]

Imagen AI is really cool!

[@ImagenAI]

❤

[@FrankP83]

Ted i remember a tutorial to apply a color correction to a photo,starting from somrthing we like...can you do that tutorial with the latest release of Lightroom?Example, I want to have a "Joker" like style on my picture...can you create a preset with Lightroom to be applied to every image? Thanks in advance and happy new year!😃

[@peterjulianphotos4659]

Hi Ted, I know that often we give away our images royalty free when posting to social media - does AI have any kind of 'non exclusive use' clause in images uploaded?

[@AlexPoitras]

Hi ! Thanks for that video. Currently is Adobe Camera RAW supported (or will be later on) or if it is only linked to Lightroom ? Thanks for your answer.

[@shyamalganguly3598]

It's a huge relief knowing about "Imagen AI" which could be incorporated into Lr software and I'm curious to know if cropping and straightening could be brought about in the same manner as you showed for exposure and color editing for a bunch of twenty photographs in a jiffy without much brain racking saving a lot of time and energy for bulk production? Have a great New year Ted.

[@ImagenAI]

Crop and straighten are available AI tools built in, and they are an extra fee.

[@mdbedelsohn4307]

@@ImagenAI hi beautiful people from imagen! Impressive! But isn't cropping a total different creative endeavor than color and general exposure? I mean, cropping is basically composing (leading lines, placement of dark/bright etc etc). How right could it be ?? I could understand that when it comes to known subjects, like human faces, that it might choose to accentuate these through cropping (zooming) in. Anyways you got me very intrigued, and I'll check it out!

[@danielcharnitsky6403]

Thanks for the video. I am following everything except when I try to access my images in my Lrc catalog there are NO images. What am I doing wrong ???

[@tweak991]

So, how is it for cropping? I do preschool/daycare photgraphy so we have to crop every images to 4x5/8x10. Does it simply crop to the subject or will it analyze the image and crop to what it thinks is best? Like zooming in on a face?

[@sunnyphotoking3548]

Can we edit Jpge format photos in this? And how to do that?

[@DaSmokeDaddy]

Do they sell or use the uploaded images to their site to other deep learning developers?

[@ImagenAI]

Nope. We keep our data to ourselves to protect our customers.

[@Jakeu1701]

Do they have plans to add plugin functionality with other image editing apps like Darktable?

[@AjaySingh-228]

Good One Sir🙂

[@websiteckron8591]

I run my first wedding with imagine ai 800 pic, uploaded 3000 images to create my look. So this war my experience. All images where too bright. I need an additional 3 hour of work to readjust the images. Just my experience.

[@nothannsmum]

anything for ACR users?

[@Schneider.]

Is it possible that it’s make Lightroom little bit slower?

[@dadaseun007]

I would like to ask,does Imagen AI help in screening out images that come out blur

[@lphilpot01]

I wonder if there's a way to throttle Imaging AI's AI? That is, limit it to doing just the same things and prevent it from making too many decisions on its own?

[@ImagenAI]

The AI learns how you edit, so it would work how you work. With that said, all edits are nondestructive in Lightroom Classic, so you can always adjust after.

[@LtDeadeye]

Does it rely on RAW or DNG data? If I export in Jpeg and reintroduce them as my sample set, does it try to match the image or the now non existent numbers?

[@ImagenAI]

All RAW formats are supported. We also support JPEGs too. All the edits must be done inside of Lightroom Classic for us to learn from. Exported JPEGs will not work.

[@RedSinter]

Great idea, but does it only work with Adobe Lightroom? What about DXO Nik Collection.

[@ImagenAI]

It works with Lightroom Classic

[@no_b_roll]

Ted’s great and all, but let’s think this through a minute. You upload YOUR photos, that you have edited in YOUR unique way, to a program that’s whole job is to learn how people edit their photos. You’re volunteering to train (and potentially pay) the algorithm that will put you out of the job, all the while using your own unique content to do so. The AI transformation is inevitable; there’s no doubting that. Still, why contribute to your art’s demise?

[@whynot9041]

So... I should contribute with my style of editing, along hundreds of other professionals, so that in the future an AI algorithm sell a pack with the most used editing styles and everyone looks like everyone so that casual photographers, phone users and others alike shoot randomly and get awesome photos already edited. And I should pay to input data to the algorithm. And loose future revenues. And someone supports this...

[@cariza5]

Ted What is the difference between Agfa Scala 200 and Agfa Scala 200X and which one is best.

[@ruthannaphotography]

Can this be used on Lr mobile?

[@alanatwood7995]

For landscape and wildlife, Im not sure this will work. Fpr events wedding and portaits etc I can see how this would be a killer solution.

[@ImagenAI]

We do have landscape and wildlife photographers using the app, but it is designed for high volume photographers.

[@KH-mq4rg]

I tried it, Imagen AI was like using a bad filter. It was not a good editor, it did not crop like a human. As of now the software is terrible. So many error messages. Import and export is a nightmare. Great idea, garbage software.

[@HR-wd6cw]

Not sold on the AI editing. I understand there are people out there that have to deliver hundreds of images in a short period of time, but create your own styles and use presets to do bulk images. AI is useful for some things like masking, but when it comes to the actual editing of images, nope, sorry. NOt to mention you have to upload your files to their server. Did people read their Usage / Terms and Condition agreement first?

[@sbgaming4794]

Did you read it? 😉

[@wkduff]

imagen wants lightroom presets i don't have, so if you do not have that previous software, imagen is useless