Photo Editing Software and Applications

"Tao Chen hopes that 3-Sweep, an incredible piece of software he created with a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University, can do the same for 3-D objects. And as Chen explains, making the 3-D experts irrelevant was never the point. “Our biggest goal is still to help novice users to do this,” he explains. For the team, led by Daniel Cohen-Or, the biggest challenge wasn’t necessarily working out all the algorithmic magic behind the model-making, but rather giving lay users an easy way to harness it. “It took us some time to figure out how to make a very convenient user interface to generate this stuff,” Chen says.

The video demo is genuinely jaw-dropping stuff. It takes us through a series of photographs, showing how with just a few clicks of the mouse, 3-Sweep can turn the objects inside them into resizable, turnaroundable 3-D models. The first two clicks establish the object’s profile; the third traces its main axis, with the software snapping intelligently to the object along the way, like a more sophisticated version of Photoshop’s magic lasso. The background of the image is filled in with something like Photoshop’s content-aware fill, allowing the object to be turned and repositioned anywhere in its environment. Basic shapes like beer bottles and jars are easy to pull out of their static surroundings, but we see how more complex objects, like water taps and telescopes, can be similarly mapped with just a little more legwork."

Learn how to edit a photo using Photoshop CC's new Camera Shake Reduction and Smart Sharpen features and the Camera Raw filter.

In this tutorial we’re going to look at the most important new features and see how they work in practice, starting with the camera shake reduction function. Camera shake occurs because there’s not enough light coming into the camera, for the aperture and shutter speed settings, to record the image before the camera moves.