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Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill
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."
Sounds like something Google Street View could use to remove people from their views and make them more acceptable.
It's not the same. Liquid Rescale moves the pieces by rescaling around them. This actually replaces just the exact area. I think it's quite a bit more useful, but in different ways.
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Here's the paper, from a comment above.
So, what about Resynthesizer?
Ezekiel 23:20
The price is not high for "pro". $700 for a completely updated application, that's about a day's rate for a "pro" in IT, or an hour for a "doc". Home users obviously don't need CS level image manipulation, they've just got used to a "mate" getting them a "free" copy.
Considering that the regular image clone tool did that in one click (well, not counting tracing a selection and setting the clone source), I don’t think it’s a very good test image.
(I used GIMP, not PS, if it makes a difference.)
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darn blockquote fail :)
I know I picked it out - what about it?
I didn't pick it out to specifically make Resynthesizer fail - it's image #2 on images.google.com for 'person in field' (sans quotes).
For an example that does work with Resynthesizer, try:
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/0f/33/e2/so-cool.jpg
Select the top-left dark thing, run the Resynthesizer script-fu - voila... dark thing removed, and sky filled in pretty well.
The problem is that this is entirely hit-or-miss.. and it's far more often miss than hit.. and then -when- it is a miss, it's a spectacular miss (as in that person-in-field image).
This is what I got very quickly with Alien Skin's Image Doctor: http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1785/edited28142421.jpg
Resynthesizer worked pretty good for me. see http://www.mesamike.org/misc/resynthesize-result.jpg.
This is what I get using the plugin on its own: http://shishnet.org/ufufuf/resynth2.jpg
Do note that the script-fu wrapper works better for larger images, which this isn't
Also, the example from the video, done with gimp instead, the results are pretty similar (IMO, better, but I'm pretty sure that the "improvements" are just luck): http://shishnet.org/ufufuf/panorama-synth.png
Having been using the resynthesizer for years, I've developed a knack for which source images will work well and which won't, and the thing that struck me about that video was that the source images are pretty much ideal conditions -- I'll be impressed when they can get good results on the images that aren't so clean :-)
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Why is Gimp always brought up when talking about Photoshop competitors?
Because it's Open Source.
I understand the near future will take Gimp out of the domain of "programmers-who-like-to-do-graphics"
That doesn't really matter to GIMP fans - it being for programmers, and it being Open Source are why they like it.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Just tried expanding a panorama as in the demo too, and resynthesizer does that pretty well too (please ignore the fact that the source material is REALLY shittily exposed, it was shot on a mobile phone with no manual exposure mode :( ):
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Filled using the "Content-Aware Fill" feature:
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/6178/huge28142421out.png