PS CS5 - sneak peek - 'content-aware fill'

[mattclinch]

looks incredibly powerful...

 

http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2010/03/sneak-peak-photoshop-cs5-context-aware.html

Edited March 24, 2010 by mattclinch

[dlparisi]

Looks really amazing for the large fixes (tree removal, panorama extension, desert fill) but the small removals like the lens flare were so-so.

[Trick]

Should I really take this for real ? Where does the bird in the upper left corner in the last panorama come from ??? Or should I wonder...why no plane ???

[brianzajac]

This is going to save all of us so much time. The panorama fill at the end would have taken me hours to fix. Thanks for sharing Matt.

[jinsley]

WOW. Looks fantastic... this might be my next Adobe CS purchase...

 

Thx for the post Matt.

[M V]

Really incredible. I find myself photoshopping telephone poles and electrical wires out of our photos all the time. this will save me hours of work! Great job to the Adobe team!

[Peter M. Gruhn]

I'm suspicious of the usefulness of the tool as a detail eraser.

 

The areas erased look too obvious on reduced sized web video. And they tend to move the camera quickly soon after performing the "miracle." "Watch me erase THIS and THIS and THIS [swoop pan and zoom] Wasn't that cool?!" "I'm not so sure. Let me actually look at it."

[WAcky]

agreed. It looks like it will do the initial bulk of the cloning operation but the person's arm was awfully blurry after the fix-up which leads me to believe that there will have to be a indeterminite amount of touch up work afterwards.

 

Still, should be interesting to see how it fits into a real-world situation

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

+1 on the skeptical of how great this tool will be. I am sure it will have many uses, but keep in mind, this is a demo supplied by the developer. In other words, it is marketing material so you will buy there product.

 

I remember a could of years ago they were previewing some tool that allowed you to clone and perspective match buildings into new forms. I can't remember exactly what it was, but my boss at the time was excited because he thought it would revolutionise what we were doing. I don't think I have ever actually used that tool in production.

 

That said, I really hope this tool works. I could use tools like this. But, I will always be skeptical of something until I actually see it in front of me, in a real working environment.