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by aspyct 821 days ago
That magnific.ai thingy is taking a lot of liberty on the images, and denaturing it.

Their example with the cake is the most obvious. To me, the original image shows a delicious cake, and the modified one shows a cake that I would rather not eat...

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Every single one of their before & after photos looks worse in the after.

The cartoons & illustrations lose all of their gradations in feeling & tone with every outline a harsh edge. The landscapes lose any sense of lushness and atmosphere, instead taking a high-clarity HDR look. Faces have blemishes inserted the original actor never had. Fruit is replaced with wax imitation.

As an artist, I would never run any of my art through anything like this.