According to authors, their software can take any rough sketch, with the shape of each element labeled with its name, find images corresponding to each drawn element, judge which are a better match to the shapes, and then seamlessly merge it all into one single image.

via This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind – Photosketch – Gizmodo.

This is cool for a few reasons:

1. No more looking around for images to montage
2. NUS collaborated in the research
3. I can make Iorek Byrnison fight Godzilla in a volcano crater when a meteor is threatening to strike both of them down.

The actual website is down and like a lot of the commentors in that article, I’d need to try my hands on to believe it.