As a recent devotee of Prisma, I would agree that the highest-level discretionary function is (as yet) totally missing from the computational side...
...BUT I would also say that this technology is yet-another-one which can act as an effective 'force multiplier' in the sense that if you already _have_ a reasonable 'eye' you can use this as a very very powerful tool.
One of the benefits of that is that if like me you have a 'decent' eye only, but no e.g. visual genius, an app like Prisma plus a modest amount of straightforward judicious additional editing / cropping, can lead unnervingly quickly to results which I find _very_ satisfying.
To put that another way, I find that I can now in-phone produce images which for my own interests and tastes are quite arresting.
They are not fine art, or innovative... but they represent a rendering into pixels of notions I am not otherwise able to execute, and frankly am not able to even foresee as effective.
I find then that I am often in a very specific aesthetic mode using them: discrimination and rejection of all but the strongest candidates.
Feels like I am executing a GA selection function, essentially, and then just doing a little post production...
...BUT I would also say that this technology is yet-another-one which can act as an effective 'force multiplier' in the sense that if you already _have_ a reasonable 'eye' you can use this as a very very powerful tool.
One of the benefits of that is that if like me you have a 'decent' eye only, but no e.g. visual genius, an app like Prisma plus a modest amount of straightforward judicious additional editing / cropping, can lead unnervingly quickly to results which I find _very_ satisfying.
To put that another way, I find that I can now in-phone produce images which for my own interests and tastes are quite arresting.
They are not fine art, or innovative... but they represent a rendering into pixels of notions I am not otherwise able to execute, and frankly am not able to even foresee as effective.
I find then that I am often in a very specific aesthetic mode using them: discrimination and rejection of all but the strongest candidates.
Feels like I am executing a GA selection function, essentially, and then just doing a little post production...