Photoshop: Content-aware Fill

[photohiker]

Hi.

I came across this today, it's a youtube demo of an upcoming Photoshop feature demo'ed Bryan O'neil Hughes, one of the Product Managers on the Photoshop team.

Content Aware Fill Sneak Peek

Amazing stuff.

Michael

[sirhc55]

Now that is totally amazing

[gstark]

Interesting ....

Because all of this stuff is still under NDA.

[surenj]

[Wink]

Interesting ....

Because all of this stuff is still under NDA.

It's on the promotional website from Adobe...
http://cs5launch.adobe.com/

[zafra52]

Buger! Why they didn't think of it before!
As I watch the video I couldn't help but
thinking of all those hours I have wasted.

Thanks for the preview.

[stubbsy]

And the "release" date for CS5 isn't far away - 12 April 2010

[Wink]

Is that the release date or just when they reveal all of the programs features?

[stubbsy]

Is that the release date or just when they reveal all of the programs features?

It's the product launch date not when you can buy it. It will be available to purchase later in the year (betting is on October). And for us the launch is April 13.

[stubbsy]

Oh and one interesting little tidbit is this - they have lens correction features built in (think DxO Optics Pro type functionality). One of the vids I've seen shows a 10.5 fisheye image being defished by CS5

[surenj]

lens correction features

Wish these would be part of Lightroom though.

[Matt. K]

Just what we all need ..CS5/6/7/8 ad infinitum. Adobe plays hopscotch with new versions of Windows. Loosen your wallets...shake out more than a few hundred bucks...it's only money and update your computers RAM.....grab new plug-ins....suffer installation problems and registration problems. Makes me want to go back to film.

[aim54x]

Just what we all need ..CS5/6/7/8 ad infinitum. Adobe plays hopscotch with new versions of Windows. Loosen your wallets...shake out more than a few hundred bucks...it's only money and update your computers RAM.....grab new plug-ins....suffer installation problems and registration problems. Makes me want to go back to film.

I am still running CS2....But yes I can see the downsides of trying to keep up...its about as bad a keeping up with camera bodies.

Like in that video....as Hitler says.. "Get me my F3"

[Willy wombat]

Looks like a super handy tool

[natskis]

Just the thought of the hours and hours of programming logic that would have to go into making a feature like that blows me away!

Thanks for the link!

[DaveB]

If I remember correctly, if you buy the current version after the announcement you will get a free upgrade to the new version when it comes out.

As for the content-aware spot-healing and the content-aware fill, I expect that those demos were specifically designed to make it look easy (this is always the case with all software demos).
If you've played at all with the current healing facilities, you'll have found things like that the size of your painted area affects the range of the sampling for the healing. Also your brush size and painted area have a big effect on quick selection, etc.
I expect that with these new features, you'll have to do things like carefully choose your selection for the content-aware fill to avoid it sampling things you don't want it to. It's not psychic, after all.

But it has definite promise for me, in things like tidying up the edges of a panorama before it's cropped to a rectangular format.

[CraigVTR]

Wow

Here is another youtube demo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScWu7pG ... r_embedded

[Murray Foote]

The only step required now is a reverse engineering filter to regenerate reality from then image....

[biggerry]

Wow

Here is another youtube demo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScWu7pG ... r_embedded

that is what I need - 'content aware fill' for life...