Canon is introducing a new online photo community that will provide a combination of artificial and human intelligence to guide photographers looking to hone their craft.

Dubbed RAISE, the new online site will serve several functions. Images that are uploaded to the platform will be automatically tagged using an AI-based algorithm that can detect a variety of image characteristics including color, composition, subject matter and more. The system will automatically apply tags where it has an 80-percent or higher confidence in the accuracy of the tag, but it will also generate a list of potential tags that it has less confidence in which the user can manually apply to their images.

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Photographers will own their images. However, images uploaded to RAISE will be used by Canon to train AI models (a common practice among many photo sites). Because of this, photographers will not be allowed to post images of residents of Texas, Washington or Illinois (due to laws that prohibit the collection of biometric information on individuals).

RAISE users can receive feedback on images they post and view a feed that’s curated for them based on the images they upload and other preferences. The feedback will be more than simple likes, however. The RAISE commenting tools include photo-centric compliments like nice composition and color. The site will also support a Collections features which will let users privately share a batch of images to clients and friends.

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Canon will also introduce a Lightroom plugin as well for uploading images to the service. The plugin will automatically synchronize a Lightroom collection with RAISE as well as apply RAISE tags to images in Lightroom. Any edits made to a synced collection in Lightroom will automatically propagate to the RAISE site.

The service is free to join and Canon will initially cap users at 1TB of storage. Users will be able to download the full-res images they upload. The service can only accept JPEG images at the moment.

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