Content Aware Fill
Just a quick update today. I spotted an update about the new Adobe Photoshop CS5 that may be coming out this year and they've look like they may have something for both we general landscape photographers and also film photographers in particular. The last release of PS had a feature called 'content aware scale' which allowed you to expand or contract areas of a picture whilst keeping detail in proportion (it worked out the areas of the picture that could be removed without distorting the picture). At the time I looked at the SIGGRAPH papers to see what the technology was behind it and was interested to see an application where they could 'fill' a patch of a picture with areas around it, a turbo charged spot heal brush! It looks like Adobe have been playing with this and added a few new features because we may finally have the tool that will make spotting transparencies and negatives a joy instead of a pain. Also, for those whose morals don't stretch far enough to restrain them from a bit of sleight of hand, the content aware fill and 'patch match' will allow you to easily remove large areas of a picture (an annoying alligator perhaps? or an incredibly irritating ibex?). Have a look at the video below and prepare your wallet (It only seems like last week I bought CS4!)
Highlight this Comment Paul Breitkreuz08/01/2010, 19:11
WOW, very interesting tool here, Tim. It would seem to help with debris cleanup much easier then present tools in PS. Thanks for sharing.
Highlight this Comment Jason Theaker08/01/2010, 23:06
that’s an incredible tool... it will be interesting to see just how good it is when using a high res file... I wonder if it has a take better compositions button too...(o:
Highlight this Comment Kevin Allan08/01/2010, 23:24
That looks truly wonderful - I wish I'd had that BEFORE scanning my back library of slides.
So far I've avoided Photoshop, using a combination of GIMP and (recently) Lightroom, but this might well be the feature that turns me into a photoshop user. Ony for ethically acceptable use, of course ...
Highlight this Comment Bax11/01/2010, 21:08
Oh drat.... I'd persuaded myself that CS4 was more than adequate. However this feature looks a real benefit for the tedious post scan cleaning. If it works close to the video it will save lots of time/effort and even with an exchange rate of 10 expletives to the £ will soon pay for itself.
Highlight this Comment Dan Baumbach15/01/2010, 22:01
This is so cool. Thanks for posting it.
Highlight this Comment lavos29/03/2010, 16:52
The same effect can be achieved in GIMP, with a free program called resynthesizer:
http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer
Highlight this Comment Rumormonger from V303/04/2010, 03:41
rumor has it the GIMP has had a feature like this for years
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