Hi Jeff,
This technology has been in use for the past couple of years through Skylum so it’s not new and when it came out it was sold as part of a software package through one payment. Skylum proudly boasted at the time they would not be going down the monthly subscription which Adobe users have to pay. But recently that’s changed when Skylum Neo updated itself to monthly subscriptions. They also updated the software not to work with older versions of Mac which pushed me out. Skylum is Ukrainian so I can understand their need for regular income. I liked the support when I complained to them about the upgrade pushing me out, I felt supported even though they couldn’t offer a solution, so next year I will have to buy a new second hand Mac to keep up with the likes of the latest from Adobe or Skylum.
This form of AI layering clearly is a lot of fun and has many applications. How successful it’s going to be with the purists I don’t know.
I have used it with Skylum a few times to replace the background or to replace a dull and uninteresting sky. On both occasions I didn’t reveal that the photo was not original. Some could say it’s cheating! but there will always be the doom sayers making those sort of snobbish comments - purists
Have fun
