Adobe ExtractShading in Photoshop (upcoming feature)

[Juraj]

Saw this @polycount and surely fits this domain too :- ) Pretty cool.

Not only will this be really useful in texture creation ( I know tons of cross-polarized, scanned and other high end sources are coming up, but in every day work, we often have to make miracle out of googled/calculator-photographed shit), but also to form reference.
Simply imagine stripping lighting information from your favourite photography to roughly get idea how it's lit. And so many other things.

Nice Adobe, please go on..

[dubcat]

Nice!

[romullus]

It would be much more useful for texture preparation if it could separate direct and ambient lighting, because generally you don't want to lose ambient lighting from diffuse textures IMHO. But lets wait and see if that feature will prove itself as useful as they claim.