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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. Damn..... by ogdenk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stalin would have just loved that content-aware fill tool.....

    1. Re:Damn..... by carcosa30 · · Score: 5, Funny

      So would Hitler, especially the part where the guy "removed a couple of Poles."

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  2. Re:STOP! by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wouldn't call this an ad. This is legitimately really fucking cool.

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  3. Early preorders are already in from by sir_eccles · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fox News and the Texas board of Education.

    1. Re:Early preorders are already in from by gknoy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Video is just a series of still pictures, that need to be interrelated. I'm certain that this could be applied to video, with enough processing power. If they can look at pixels that are neighboring in one frame, they can do it for pixels that are neighboring in time, too.

  4. Google Street View by ISoldat53 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sounds like something Google Street View could use to remove people from their views and make them more acceptable.

  5. Re:I'm convinced! by thewils · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It entered the land of exclusive pro tool years ago.

    It entered the land of bittorrent download and piracy years ago.

    There, fixed it for you.

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  6. Enhance by SimonTheSoundMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next up is the "CSI Enhance" tool. Take a photo of 10x10 pixels, and make it a perfect 2MP image.

    1. Re:Enhance by EvanED · · Score: 5, Funny

      They can call it Adobe Homeopathy.

    2. Re:Enhance by arhhook · · Score: 5, Funny

      "CSI Enhance" tool

      I can see the fingerprint in the reflection on his eyeball, it must be the killer!

  7. The most important question by CptPicard · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder what sort of a fig leaf it will use to plug the gap in the goatse photo...

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  8. Re:Watch the vid in the article by MXPS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Color, I mean content-aware fill me impressed.

  9. 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

  10. Re:STOP! by Jazz-Masta · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wouldn't call this an ad. This is legitimately really fucking cool.

    So is the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser...

  11. Lens Flares by pete-classic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using Photoshop to remove lens flares? Oh! Brave new world!

    -Peter

    1. Re:Lens Flares by pete-classic · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah. Wow. I never dreamed that anyone would find that obscure. For example.

      -Peter

  12. I'll believe it when by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see a 12 megapixel image in hand of a before and after and not a tiny less than 400 pixel overcompressed youtube video.

    I have seen this automatic stuff before and when you look carefully at it it's not very clean unless you re-sample down to 1/4 the resolution or go small for web use.. it's never clean enough to print out at 11X17 or larger.

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    1. Re:I'll believe it when by Gaerek · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If you've ever used photoshop, you would understand what it takes just to get to that part. Ever try removing a tree from an image in PS? Then have the sky look natural? That's almost impossible for the average user, and probably at least an hour (or more) of work from someone who knows what they are doing. Fixing the mistakes at that point is easy. This is could possibly be one of the most revolutionary tools in photoshop since the clone stamp.

  13. Re:One damn tool - pay for 200 unnecessary ones by ExileOnHoth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    noone wants to shell out $60 for 200 functions 20 of which they will use from time to time.

    Personally, I'll shell out. I make a living using photoshop and I support the idea that a bunch of extremely talented software engineers ought to be able to make a living developing it.

  14. 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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  15. Re:Nice Demo... by marcansoft · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's the paper, from a comment above.

  16. Re:I for one by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So, what about Resynthesizer?

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  17. Re:Having watched the whole thing to the end... by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, clearly the images where Photoshopped. I could tell from some of the pixels and having seen quite a few Photoshops in my time... er, wait a minute...

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  18. 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.