Don't like that tree there? Just circle it, and Photoshop does the rest. Gone.
Posted 03.24.2010 at 4:24 pm
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Content-Aware Fill
Let's fill'er out
Adobe
Getting rid of annoying lens flares or an unwanted tree in Photoshop could get much less tedious with a new "content-aware fill" tool. Adobe's sneak preview of the feature shows how formerly painstaking retouch jobs becomes as easy as watching a progress bar do its magic within seconds.
The tool can also do instant-fixes where users manually erase image artifacts or clean up areas in photos, such as removing divots from grass. Bryan O'Neil Hughes, a Photoshop project manager, narrates a demo that walks would-be users through cleaning up several images:
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Technology, Jeremy Hsu, adobe, computers, image alteration, images, panorama, Photography, Photos, Photoshop, snaps, software, VideoEven those ugly-edge panorama images stitched together from different photos can become one smooth rectangular image. Content-aware fill's algorithms fill out the formerly nonexistent part of the panorama photo with the appropriate ground, sky and cloud patterns. Perhaps our inner dying artiste might feebly protest this assault on image authenticity, but our inner Photochopper has already begun salivating like Pavlov's dogs.
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that is redonkulously amazing
i'm shocked
They have seriously changed the game again with this.
--GTO--
"0_0"
Definately an improvement from the previous photo editing software.
I wrote one of these before, after reading the originators paper. Google content aware seam carving you'll find the papers and several implementations. Though they seriously upped the bar with the quality level. The one I wrote could get stuck in mid energy seams and just start stretching the picture.
I'd really like to know how they got the quality that high. Good job photoshop pushing the limits again.
dark wizards....that is all
Almost had me fooled :)
wow, i was pretty impressed with deleting the tree and creating sky there but that was all different hue's of blue, the desert and the panorama blew me away. That is amazing.
Wow. i think i may have to stop using free GIMP and maybe fork out money for this.... because that is amazing!
So now I can circle a girls bikini, use content-aware fill and it will remove it! Amazing!
That's amazing!
@ 207pc
lmao! that would be THE perfect use of this tool =D
hahah remove girls bikini's dats probably rite , but im afraid will show only the skin without nipples :)
wow, that's amazing.
@ kukiplaku: nipples are easy enough to draw, you could do that on paint lol
This has got to be one of the neatest things scene wireless electricity.
When and where can I get it. Finally, I will have time for my family!!!!
Useless function for technology. Anyone can do a better job in Paint.
@thepainfultruth
Lol.