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Adobe is using AI to make your selfies look like actual photography

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The wide angle lenses introduce unpleasant distortion, and the small camera sensors can't produce those blurry backgrounds we see in higher-end portraits. Roughly 24 billion selfies were added to the Google Photos service in 2016, according to the company. Most of them, we're not ashamed to say, were garbage. So, when Adobe showed off a "sneak peek" video in which a man makes a run-of-the-mill selfie look like a pro-grade (or at least enthusiast-level) portrait, it seemed like magic. However, most of the retouching technology on display already exists in Adobe's arsenal--but now the company is leveraging artificial intelligence to bring those advanced capabilities into the one-tap world of smartphone photo editing.