Projects / Generating Photo Manipulation Tutorials and Macros by Demonstration
Generating Photo Manipulation Tutorials and Macros by Demonstration
Floraine Grabler| University of California, Berkeley
Maneesh Agrawala| University of California, Berkeley
Wilmot Li| Adobe Systems
Mira Dontcheva| Adobe Systems
Takeo Igarashi| University of Tokyo, JST ERATO
We present a demonstration-based system for automatically generating succinct step-by-step visual tutorials of photo manipulations. An author first demonstrates the manipulation using an instrumented photo manipulation application that records all changes in interface and application state. From the example recording, our system automatically generates tutorials that illustrate the manipulation using images, text, and annotations. It leverages automated image labeling (recognition of facial features and outdoor scene structures in our implementation) to generate more precise text descriptions of many of the steps in the tutorials. A user study comparing our automatically generated tutorials to hand-designed tutorials and screen-capture video recordings finds that users are 20–44% faster and make 60–95% fewer errors using our tutorials. While our system focuses on tutorial generation, we also present some initial work on generating content-dependent macros that use image recognition to automatically transfer selection operations from the example image used in the demonstration to new target images. While our macros are limited to transferring selection operations we demonstrate automatic transfer of several common retouching techniques including eye recoloring, whitening teeth and sunset enhancement.
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Generating Photo Manipulation Tutorials By Demonstration
Grabler, F., Agrawala, M., Li, W., Dontcheva, M., Igarashi, T. (Feb 01, 2009)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 28(3), 1-9
