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Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill

Posted by timothy on from the it's-like-stalin-was-never-there dept.

Barence writes "If you're looking for reasons to upgrade to Photoshop CS5 when it arrives, a new demo video might just persuade you. Narrated by Bryan O'Neil-Hughes, a product manager on the Photoshop team, the video shows the new content-aware fill tool, which has the potential to revolutionise the way you clean up photos. If you're not happy with an item in your picture, select it, delete it, and Photoshop will analyse the surrounding area and plug the gap as if it never existed."

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  1. Re:I for one by thedigitalbean · · Score: 4, Informative

    Liquid rescale is an implementation of the Seam Carving technology which was incorporated into Photoshop CS4 as a feature titled Content Aware Scale.

    This new feature comes from an algorithm titled PatchMatch which was presented at SIGGRAPH 2009:

    http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/index.php

  2. Another youtube video about content-aware fill by chebucto · · Score: 5, Informative

    Includes more detail about the algo
    - Developed with researches at Princeton
    - Demo'd at SIGGRAPH in Aug. 2009
    - Old spot-healing tool tried to find one match for the hole; new tool copies multiple patches from the surrounding BG to fit into the hole, as well as finding & copying surrounding patterns

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9vbHRcrbdQ&feature=related

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  3. What about Resynthesizer? Well.. example within by Animaether · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a very cool GIMP plugin for some things, but...

    This is my source image:
    http://s3.images.com/huge.28.142421.JPG

    I want to remove the lady on the right, so I select her:
    http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/1346/resynthesizerselection.jpg

    And then, per the Resynthesizer page's recommendations, I use "Script-Fu/Enhance/Smart remove selection..."
    http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/228/resynthesizerresultradi.jpg

    Oh dear.

    Anybody with access to the Photoshop beta feature want to give that image a stab? For all I know it fails just as spectacularly - but from the research it's based on, I highly suspect it'll fare better.