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

    Fox News and the Texas board of Education.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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  4. Re:Enhance by EvanED · · Score: 5, Funny

    They can call it Adobe Homeopathy.

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

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

    -Peter

  7. 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!

  8. 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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  9. Re:Nice Demo... by marcansoft · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's the paper, from a comment above.

  10. 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.