The darkroom gave way to Lightroom, and now Lightroom has company. Artificial intelligence isn’t replacing photographers, but it’s quietly revolutionizing what happens after the shutter clicks. The edit bay…
What do we mean by “AI” here?
Generative image models (e.g., Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Firefly) create or transform pictures from prompts, image-to-image, or in-painting.
LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude) are text systems—great for briefs, treatments, estimates, captions, keywording, and research, but they don’t create photos; they plan and describe.
