Adobe is working to bring photographers of all levels a valued assistant — and the voice of that assistant may sound familiar.
A video produced by Adobe Research shows a man giving voice commands to an iPad to crop a photo and prepare it to post on Facebook. The voice coming from the iPad sounds like Siri as it repeats the photographer’s commands.
The 40-second video shows just a few voice commands that trigger what appear to be the basic editing tools of the device’s native camera. But the video offers a glimpse into a post-production future that needs no mouse, trackpad or keystrokes.
The video was posted to YouTube by Adobe Research on Tuesday and is making the rounds on photography websites, like iso1200 and PetaPixel, which were among the first to report on the new initiative.
Adobe Research “is exploring what an intelligent digital assistant photo editing might look like,” the research team wrote in the introduction to the YouTube video. “To envision this, we combined the emerging science of voice interaction with deep understanding of both creative workflows and the creative aspirations of our customers.
Imagine a single voice command for that photo you made at Yosemite over the summer that goes something like, “Make it look like an Ansel Adams print.”