Has AI Made Photo Editing Obsolete?

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AI Editing: Cheating, Tool, or the New Normal?

AI tools can now transform your images with a single prompt. But just because you can fix it in post with a sentence, should you? Does the 'magic' replace the art of photo editing?"

A simple prompt to transform your image effortlessly!

Before & After

Before | After Canon R6 Mark II Original at f/5.6 for 1/80 sec at 63 mm ISO 8000 vs Gemini Nano Banana Pro Enhanced

✅ Pros

• ✅Simply write what you want in the prompt, and magic happens
• ✅“Good enough” is now ridiculously easy
• ✅Editing time drops from hours to minutes

⛔ Cons

• ⛔Surrenders creativity to the algorithm
• ⛔Output size is frustratingly a different size than the original input
• ⛔Shifts the satisfaction from creating the image to requesting it

Let's Hear Your Thoughts!

Sound off: At what point does 'editing' stop and 'generating' begin? If the AI does the heavy lifting, are you still the photographer, or just the prompter?"

Are you quietly letting AI replace your editing hours? Or is hands-on Photoshop (or Lightroom Classic) still the soul of your photography? Drop your take below."