While professional photographers continue to spend money on expensive equipment and look down on fans of mobile photography, the rest of the world clogs the memory of their phones with pictures. And he is looking for what else can be done with a smartphone camera and image processing software. From time to time, individual applications 'take off' so high that their popularity becomes epidemic. Take the same Prisma – now the phrase 'neural network' has become almost commonplace. And the possibilities of such recognition algorithms are just beginning to unfold.
Application 'Poetizer. Correct Words', unlike many others, does not change your photos themselves. The neural network algorithm recognizes objects in the image, and then finds poetical matches for them, choosing a suitable passage from the extensive base of quotations of classical poetry. This is its main feature and so far uniqueness, since the search for similar applications did not give any result.
The app is intuitive and minimalistic. Nothing superfluous, which is very captivating, since images and quotes are self-sufficient content, and unnecessary 'quirks' would be useless here.
The main screen invites us to select an image from the gallery or take a photo by launching the camera.
In a few seconds 'Poetizer', recognizing the objects in the photograph, 'will turn it into poetry', or rather, will select suitable quotes from Russian poets of the Golden or Silver Age. Since landscape poetry is the 'strong point' of the Russian poetry school, why not start with the landscape.
Quite optimistic. And the quote fits perfectly, and the promise of fast streams and nightingales in response to the uploaded February photo is also very encouraging. However, 'Poetizer' is not limited to one quote – as many as ten options are offered for each image so that you can choose the 'most correct words'.
The application recognized birches, but the previous version came up much better for the photo. Let's see what editing options the application offers. The set of them is as minimalistic as the interface itself: it is the choice of the color of the quote background from four options (black, white, azure and purple).
Azure turned out to be very relevant. It remains to choose a font, there are also four options (classic, light, modern and strict). In addition, text alignment is available to the center and to the left or right. Most often, the default alignment looks prettier.
If desired, by tapping on the central icon below, the photo can be cropped.
The position of the quote in the photo can be changed by moving it both horizontally and vertically, so that it does not cover anything important in the picture.
The finished result can be saved to the clipboard (pictures will be saved in a separate folder called Right Words), or you can share it right away.
Flowers are no less poetic and no less common in a photographic subject than a landscape. Let's see if 'Poetizer' likes flowers. The photo is analyzed quickly, but what if you manage to remember at least one quote about flowers from Russian poetry in a couple of seconds?
And again, a solid positive. At the same time, the color of the substrate 'purple' came to the court. But tulips with a general mood were a little less lucky than an orchid …
And don't look that this is already the seventh of the proposed quotations. The first excerpt was written by Andrei Bely:
I lie in numb colors
Crimson, –
In pink and purple hyacinths,
And white.
It remains only to write off the associations on the general melancholy of the Silver Age and move on to one more undisputed leader of the hit parade of plots of smartphone pictures – cats.
Even the severity of the austere font will not make the cat flatter for such a 'dinner', but it could be much, much worse …
However, the girls from Sasha Cherny, at times too merciless and sharp on the tongue, get much stronger. Let it remain a surprise, but for an example of the interaction of 'Poetizer' with portrait shots, let's try to choose one of the generally recognized standards of beauty.
How not to demonstrate good manners in the society of the Beautiful Lady …
It seems the app is also up to date with the gossip news …
However, even about political events, Poetizer has his own opinion. Oh, those neural networks!
Returning to the beautiful ladies – choose from excerpts selected for the last selfie of your girlfriend, and you can definitely please her. As well as taking a picture with friends during a feast on the occasion of someone's birthday, and then getting Nekrasov's lines from 'Poetizer' not in the eyebrow, but in the eye:
The people were gurgling, the people were yawning,
Hardly a hundredth understood
What's being done here …
Or you can indulge in the memories of travel – with a poetic seasoning that will add spice to them. For example, for a photograph of a picturesque German city, the program even gave the poet a German origin.
Summing up a short summary, first of all I would like to note the wide coverage of authors and works that make up the poetic base of the application. Even if the passage, as they say, is past, perhaps you will simply discover a new name for yourself or go to clarify in which work of your favorite poet certain lines were. And as for the main function of the application – recognizing objects in the photo and finding the corresponding quote – of course, recognition cannot be equally successful for every picture. Sometimes it looks more like an associative hit that can entertain like a favorite child's fortune-telling by the number of a book page. Or the famous genie-Akinator, guessing the intended person. But more often the Poetizer still adequately analyzes the photo, and for a photo of a friend who brags about a new hairstyle on Vkontakte, you can get poems about a Beautiful Lady (or a caustic epigram), for pictures with cats – funny excerpts about cats, to beautiful species – contemplative lyrics, in which the objects found in the photo will surely meet. The same photo with birch trees along with spring verses, sent to someone exhausted by blues and vitamin deficiency, is quite capable of cheering up.
'Poetiser' is free and available for both Android and iOS and Windows Mobile. The application leaves a very pleasant impression, and if the poetry base is subsequently updated, and new ones are added to the design options, it will be just fine.
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