Lore

AI Photo Editing

AI Photo Editing, as this book documents it, is a working knowledge base for turning a phone photo into something that reads as professionally made — not a single tutorial but several parallel routes: the phone-only path (Photos app, Lensa, Lightroom Mobile), the desktop Photoshop path (non-destructive foundations, then either AI-assisted or fully manual compositing), a separate local/node-based path through Flux and ComfyUI, and a closing grab-bag of tools and prompting techniques that don't fit anywhere else. The arc is cumulative in places and parallel in others: mobile-editing-baseline and lightroom-mobile-masking-and-light build a straight line of increasing control without ever leaving a phone; photoshop-non-destructive-foundations is the hinge everything Photoshop-related depends on, after which generative-fill-compositing-toolkit and manual-compositing-craft split into two answers to the same compositing problem — one AI-driven, one entirely by hand; flux-comfyui-model-tuning then leaves Photoshop altogether for a numbers-driven local toolchain; and beyond-photoshop-tools-and-prompting closes by naming what else exists outside all of that, explicitly and admittedly not exhaustively.

This is for someone who already has photos to edit and wants to know which tool and which technique actually earns a premium result, not a beginner course in any one app. Coverage is honestly uneven: photoshop-non-destructive-foundations draws on PHLEARN PRO trailers that name building blocks without teaching them step by step, manual-compositing-craft rests on a single worked panorama example, and flux-comfyui-model-tuning carries numbers its own source calls empirical or unconfirmed. And the subject's own stated goal names tools this book never reaches — the ChatGPT image model and Lovart appear in no chapter, a gap beyond-photoshop-tools-and-prompting says plainly at its close.

Как читать

Read front to back if you're building the whole picture: mobile-editing-baseline into lightroom-mobile-masking-and-light covers everything achievable on a phone, photoshop-non-destructive-foundations is the required desktop foundation before either generative-fill-compositing-toolkit or manual-compositing-craft, and flux-comfyui-model-tuning and beyond-photoshop-tools-and-prompting close out the local and outside-Photoshop tracks. If you already edit comfortably on mobile, skip straight to Photoshop Foundations: Non-Destructive Editing & Selection; if you already know Photoshop's non-destructive plumbing, go directly to whichever compositing route matches the job — Generative Fill & AI Compositing Toolkit for an AI-assisted background swap, Manual Compositing Craft: Light, Color & Depth for full hand control — and treat Flux & ComfyUI: Local Model Tuning as its own standalone track you can read independently of everything Photoshop.

Главы

  1. Mobile Baseline: iPhone Photos App & Lensa — The starting point for anyone beginning from a phone camera roll: one-tap Photos-app tools, manual sliders, and Portrait Mode's lighting styles, capped by handing the face off to Lensa. It opens the book because every later chapter assumes a photo has already passed through some version of this stage.
  2. Lightroom Mobile: Masking, Sliders & Simulated Light — Where phone editing graduates from one-tap adjustment into deliberate masking and simulated light, using Lightroom Mobile's Select-Subject tool, Effects sliders, and a fabricated radial-gradient sun. It follows the Photos/Lensa baseline as the next tier of control still available without touching a desktop.
  3. Photoshop Foundations: Non-Destructive Editing & Selection — The desktop entry point: smart objects, Camera Raw as a filter, and the selection-to-mask pipeline that every later Photoshop chapter — AI-assisted or manual — is built on top of. It comes here because nothing downstream in Photoshop makes sense without this plumbing first.
  4. Generative Fill & AI Compositing Toolkit — The AI-driven route through Photoshop compositing — Generative Fill, Harmonize, Generative Upscale, and the finishing stack that closes the gap they leave short of professional. It builds directly on the previous chapter's selection-to-mask pipeline, now aimed at a generated background instead of a real one.
  5. Manual Compositing Craft: Light, Color & Depth — The non-AI answer to the same compositing problem: a fully manual, depth-ordered build with hand-matched light and color at every layer. It sits right after the AI toolkit chapter as the other way to reach physical believability, no model call involved.
  6. Flux & ComfyUI: Local Model Tuning — A self-contained detour into local, node-based generation — LoRAs, the Model Sampling Flux node, and sweep workflows for tuning an image by numbers rather than by masking or prompting. It follows the Photoshop chapters because it's a genuinely different toolchain, not a continuation of them.
  7. Beyond Photoshop: Other Tools & Prompting Techniques — The closing chapter, collecting what's tied to other generators — Midjourney's character consistency, Firefly's reference tricks — and to prompting itself, for jobs neither Photoshop nor Flux is the right tool for. It comes last because it's deliberately narrow and says outright which tools it never reaches.

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