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Prettier Than Real?

An AI can make photos nicer all by itself. It changes brightness and colours. It also boosts the contrast. That is the difference between light and dark.

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What you'll learn in this level

  • Everything an AI changes in a photo
  • Why it first works out what is in the picture
  • When improving turns into faking

When the Camera Helps Out

An AI can make photos nicer all by itself. It changes brightness and colours. It also boosts the contrast. That is the difference between light and dark.

Your phone does this with every photo. The photo app looks at your picture and improves it right away.

How an AI Improves Pictures

  1. Know the scene

    First the AI works out what kind of picture this is. A landscape? A portrait? A night shot? Then it acts on that.

  2. Clever changes

    It changes something to fit the scene. It brightens dark spots. Or it makes the colours stronger.

  3. Find faces

    In a portrait the AI looks for the face first. Then it smooths the skin, for example.

  4. Learn from examples

    The AI has seen millions of photos taken by professionals. That way it learned what people find beautiful.

Here you improve a few pictures yourself. Then you see what the AI would have done.

Guess first, then experiment

An AI makes your blurry photo sharp. Where do the new details come from?