Photosketch automagically creates Photoshop montages from your sketches
You might expect something as advanced as PhotoSketch to come from a huge company like Google, but it was actually developed by a group of 5 computer science students in China. Their bandwidth isn't enough to stand up to all the hype, though, so PhotoSketch is down right now. The very impressive demo video shows a bit of how it works, though.
PhotoSketch uses a combination of your text labels and the rough shape of what you drew to find appropriate elements for your image. The results, at least the ones in the video, are incredible. The video also reveals that PhotoSketch isn't perfect - you don't want a baseball player for your Frisbee throwing scene, for example - but it generates several decent options for you to choose from, so one of them should be what you're looking for.
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Fred Thompson said 6:07PM on 10-06-2009
Cute BUT the only way this idea could possibly work is if you have a HUGE pool of tagged image components. Notice there is no workable method, just a theoretical flow and a video. Is today Chinese April 1?
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vdude45 said 10:56PM on 10-06-2009
What about google images?
MarkyB86 said 5:37PM on 10-06-2009
I want this software. That's all I can say.
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rokubungi said 8:30PM on 10-06-2009
wow if this were real.. imagine the nutty scribblenaut type scenes you could make...
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whiskey said 12:53PM on 10-09-2009
Hello easier and funnier lolcat creations!
How does this protect in any way copyrights?
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