Photoshop: Content-Aware Fill. Wow!

[badradio]

Pretty freaking sweet... Although it worries me, as someone in that industry, that the technology will become so easy and cheap that I'll be mowing lawns in a few years... But in the meantime... Sweeeeet!

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by Barnes

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.

Here's a video description of the algorithms used to do content aware scaling (from SIGGRAPH 2007). This is just one more step past that (as shown at the end of the video):

[Russic]

Originally Posted by badradio

Pretty freaking sweet... Although it worries me, as someone in that industry, that the technology will become so easy and cheap that I'll be mowing lawns in a few years... But in the meantime... Sweeeeet!

People say stuff like this about photography all the time, but what I feel is often overlooked is that if you are highly skilled at Photoshop you will always have the advantage. Awesome tools in Photoshop will never take the place of strong photography skills or professional Photoshop experience.

[Stumptown]

Wow, it can make sandwiches too! http://www.petapixel.com/2010/03/30/...e-fill-parody/

It slices, it dices...

[Kipper is King]

Originally Posted by Stumptown

Wow, it can make sandwiches too! http://www.petapixel.com/2010/03/30/...e-fill-parody/

It slices, it dices...

Awesome! Now, if I put a picture of myself at the NHL Draft as Sutter is drafting, does it show me being drafted by the Flames?

[HOOT]

This might take a while because it's a pretty messy room.

LOL

[Prototype]

Originally Posted by badradio

Pretty freaking sweet... Although it worries me, as someone in that industry, that the technology will become so easy and cheap that I'll be mowing lawns in a few years... But in the meantime... Sweeeeet!

I hear that's a feature they're working on for CS6, so you may be out of work again.