Goat Trail Revisited

 

In my recent post about the Goat Trail, Leigh from Five Acres & a Dream made the comment about how much she liked the layers of the rock. I responded that I had more dramatic pictures showing the layers but they had others in them that I didn't want to post pictures. If you recall, I hung back and didn't go on this portion of the hike and so these pictures were taken by my youngest daughter. 

I no longer have photo editing software up to the task of editing photos since Adobe Lightroom decided to make my lifetime purchase of their program obsolete and force me to go to a subscription model which I detest. But A.I. has gotten a lot better and a fairly recent post by Kay over at Musings about the capabilities of it got me to thinking. Could A.I. be up to the task?

So I pulled up Google Gemini, uploaded my picture and asked it to replace the humans in the photo with proportionally sized goats. It dutifully did but they ended up being the same size as the humans. I asked it to reduce the size of the goats by 50% and it did nothing. After several attempts, I told it to scale down the "goat" by 50% and it dutifully did... the goat in the foreground. The goat in the background of the picture is still the size of a human but it limits attempts so it will stay that way for now.

But the above picture with the A.I. added goats, should give you a sense of the scale of the Goat Trail and how exposed it becomes in places.

Below is the first picture I edited to replace the human with a goat and it too was the size of a human until I went through several attempts to finally get it scaled correctly but left a weird shadow behind the goat. I tried to get A.I. to reduce the shadow but every attempt erased the goat too so I eventually left it alone. 

Overall, I am quite impressed on how A.I. was able to edit these photos in ways I don't have the capabilities to do anymore. I think it is good enough, that I really don't need photo editing software at all and can just let A.I. do the work meaning Adobe won't be getting any subscription monies from me anytime soon!