Editmamei releases desktop AI photo editing tool
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Editmamei has released a desktop AI photo editing tool that connects an AI assistant to Photoshop or GIMP; the AI decides the editing plan, and the editor carries out the operations layer by layer using real masks and adjustments, rather than having the model redraw the photo. The author says this is to avoid the artificial feel caused by model redrawing, and believes that prompt tuning and having AI build an editor from scratch are both unreliable and wasteful. The desktop version is free, and the source code is open-sourced on GitHub.
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The author argues that AI photo editing often looks fake because current approaches rely either on fragile prompts or on AI rebuilding an editor from scratch each session, and proposes instead connecting AI assistants to established desktop editors like Photoshop or GIMP. Their project, Editmamei, lets the AI decide the edit while the editor applies it layer by layer with real masks and adjustments, producing a layered file that can be opened and changed. The desktop version is free, with source at github.com/editmamei/editmamei.
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