USSR's photoshop. - General

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2PsiJXswiM&feature=player_embedded[/media] In 80's USSR already had equipment for scanning, digitally editing and printing photos :ussr:

I want that

Oh look, content aware.

80s Photoshop.

That's awesome.

Somehow it reminds me of Blade Runner.

[QUOTE=amcwatters;25887719]Oh look, content aware.[/QUOTE] 30 years before adobe made it :v:

This is just fucking incredible. The amount of work put into these is tremendously huge.

[IMG]http://imgur.com/rvTvh.png[/IMG] laughingsoviets.jpg

[QUOTE=Binladen34;25891727]30 years before adobe made it :v:[/QUOTE] This absolutely blows my mind. When I first saw content awareness, I just said, "This is too much for me to handle." I remember being hysterical about how amazing it was, and now that I see this, I feel like the USSR is like, [IMG]http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/ad281/andrewmcwatters/huemad.png[/IMG]

Holy shit it's that russian trance song at 2:12

Is this real? There's no interlacing on those ANCIENT screens, I'm pretty sure we'd see the black bar thing go up and down.

As much as I want to believe this is true, I have a hard time accepting it. Look at 2:27, they have the blurry photo of the laughing comrades. What bugs me about this is that the photo is a scan of a film shot. How can they un-blur the picture? It's creating information that just isn't there. No matter how much you "enhance" the scanned photo, it's still a scan of a photograph. With digital photography the sensor records information so although the photograph might not look perfect it can still recover some detail. Of course I don't speak Russian so I have no clue what it was saying at that part. Maybe it was demonstrating how the can blur and de-blur a photograph they have already scanned in, but I still feel like this is more of a propoganda video than anything. The whole "look at what we have" propaganda video.

They obviously skipped lots of steps and cheated a bit.

Yeah I know, but people are obsessing over the features it has. Basic digital image editing existed on both sides in the 80s, but the whole "content aware", "magical image restoring" features seem to be really sketchy. I doubt either superpower had digital technology that advanced.

I think they just changed the contrast to bring out some detail.

I don't know WHAT in the hell he is saying, all I know is that whatever he is saying is super smart and beyond my puny capitalist American ideals.

That's amazing. I had no idea.

Wow, they were actually sober for a brief moment

Hot damn. If they had this in the '80s, Russia probably has a secret base on the moon by now.

[QUOTE=kidwithsword;25908612]Hot damn. If they had this in the '80s, Russia probably has a secret base on the moon by now.[/QUOTE] They do, after all they were testing nukes behind the moon for years

It took Adobe almost 30 years to copy USSR's Content Awareness feature? How lame

What's the name of that cylindrical scanning device? It was used at the Nuremberg Trials to 'radio' pictures around the world.

In Soviet Russia Photoshop Redacted You!

Holy shit that's amazing :tinfoil:

How dare they say they were first? Amerika should bomb them!

[QUOTE=amcwatters;25902922]This absolutely blows my mind. When I first saw content awareness, I just said, "This is too much for me to handle." I remember being hysterical about how amazing it was, and now that I see this, I feel like the USSR is like,[/QUOTE] Content-aware fill is not that amazing really, think of it as an auto clone-stamp tool. The thing shown in the video is probably even a lot simpler. [editline]7th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Edthefirst;25904622]As much as I want to believe this is true, I have a hard time accepting it. Look at 2:27, they have the blurry photo of the laughing comrades. What bugs me about this is that the photo is a scan of a film shot. How can they un-blur the picture? It's creating information that just isn't there. No matter how much you "enhance" the scanned photo, it's still a scan of a photograph. With digital photography the sensor records information so although the photograph might not look perfect it can still recover some detail. [/QUOTE] That was not de-blurring at all. Ever heard of unsharp masking? It basically just increases local contrast so that the image appears a lot sharper to the human eye. The example in the video is just a photo that has been completely raped by unsharp masking (OH GOD THE HALOS :byodood:)

[QUOTE=gRuKz;25903016]Holy shit it's that russian trance song at 2:12[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipE9QFiWhzQ[/media]