iOS 18.1 - Apple Intelligence - Photo Clean Up

Anyone else had a chance to have a play with Apple Intelligence Photo Clean Up, which is a new feature within iOS 18.1.

It’s as good as Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill.

Original image.

Image after using Clean Up.

Zoomed in section, after removing the white square stone.

Did this on my iPad Pro, which took only a second or two, for each point that I cleaned up.

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It’s not bad, I tried it on my 15 Pro last night. Although I’ll still flit between that and the Retouch App.

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Never tried Photoshop so I can’t compare, but as per @HantsFlyer I do use Retouch.

The Apple photos app changes seem a bit new still. I think they’re missing some of the brush or selection tools. Waving my finger or drawing a circle around an object doesn’t quite do what I expected it to do.

Still, it’s AI, maybe it’ll learn :blush:

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Link :thinking:

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It’s £15.00 per year. :flushed::cry:

I paid nothing like that at the time, I think it was no more than a couple of quid, if that?

You may be looking at some kind of pro features that would be wasted on me.

I don’t recall ever paying for it :thinking:

Anyway, it wasn’t a recommendation, it was simply “here’s all I can compare Apple AI to” :slight_smile:

If I recall initially it was free, then they charged a minimal fee for better removal features. From the sounds of it the App has increased considerably in cost.

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I’ve been playing around with Clean Up this morning. One interesting thing I’ve found is if you circle a face it adds a blocky “safety filter”.

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Photoshop introduced the ‘Remove Tool’ with its last update which works well on some subjects. Obviously it struggles with some and I’ve usually had to do a bit of tidying up but it’s generally very good.

So I fully tried out the Apple feature yesterday in removing bits from an image. I found I had to repeat the process a number of times to achieve the result. Apple need to improve this feature as the likes of Retouch and no doubt others are far superior over it.

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I’d agree with you there, it’s not to the standard of the other well known photo editing apps (Adobe, Luminiar, Topaz, etc…) who have been using AI technology for over 12 months now.

The Apple photos app is probably good enough for joe bloggs, who used their phone for all their photos, but it’s won’t be acceptable to DSLR / Mirrorless camera users, until their AI improves.

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