Used to spend 3 hours cleaning up sports photos, now it takes 20 minutes
I shoot youth soccer games here in Fresno every weekend and the noise cleanup used to eat my whole Saturday night. I'd sit there with the healing brush in Photoshop for like 3 hours per game just fixing grass stains and random parents in the background. A guy in my photo club showed me an AI masking tool about 4 months ago and I was honestly skeptical at first. Now I run the batch through it, it picks out the players automatically, and I'm done in maybe 20 minutes. Last weekend I edited all 4 games before dinner which never would have happened before. The weird part is I actually kind of miss the slow editing nights? Has anyone else felt that way after switching to AI tools?