If you like playing around with Photoshop, or you've ever had difficulty removing something from an image, the upcoming content-aware fill feature in CS5 will blow your mind. I read about it on a tech blog, and my jaw hit the floor! Stuff that used to take hours to do might now just take seconds.
Check this out...
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At first I was "meh" until the last demonstration, that's when I blurted out "No freakin way that'll work".
I now stand corrected. Amazing. I remember something like this being demonstrated by another company a year or two ago, I wonder if they bought them for this technology.
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Damn it! Now I'm not going to be able to tell my clients that Photoshop isn't "magic" anymore. The clone brush from the first demo was in 4, but I never found it to work very well. I work in print, though, and it's hard for me to believe that if you look really close at the high res you wouldn't be able to see the clone edges. But it would save a hell of a lot of time in certain situations.
"I think the question on everyone's mind is...is content-aware fill also anatomically aware? That is to say, what happens when you delete, say, pieces of clothing..."
Could this give us those dirty pictures of the most holy of people? haha
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Not at all, as I've said, I would rather start with LA over any of the other WC playoff teams. Bunch of underachievers who look good on paper but don't even deserve to be in the playoffs.
Starting in CS6, you won't have to take the picture in the first place, you just have to think about the picture you want, and Photoshop will draw it for you.
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I call BS... those "content aware fixed" images look awfully real... just unbelieveable.
It's actually relatively simple to method to achieve this through pattern matching and nearest neighbor analysis. The algorithms to do it have probably been around for a long time an desktop computers have now finally caught up in terms of the required horsepower.
This is real and beta testers for Adobe have confirmed it works. I'm curious as to what it'll do when asked to extrapolate a newspaper or something with writing, but otherwise it's very impressive. Also that video doesn't show the details of the images. The actual fill looks good zoomed out in a youtube player, but up close it may contain several artifacts. Still, most of the DP guys I've heard from say this is some sort of god-send. Plenty of customers come in expecting a magic "fix" button in Photoshop, and this is almost the same thing!
Photoshop: Content-Aware Fill. Wow!
