Content Aware Fills Coming in Photoshop CS5

These two videos got quite a bit of positive reaction from our members at Signs101.com today. The new feature Adobe calls Content Aware Fills strikes me as a real game changer in image processing. So I thought I'd ask what everyone here thinks about it.

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I think what you're thinking of is the self-healing feature they introduced a couple of versions back.

From my perspective, when we talk to a prospect about a collection, we hear back quite often that they can create a tile in Photoshop in just a few minutes so that they see no need for what we offer. I never quite bought into that because of all the blur lines one sees using Adobe's approach. I'll be curious to see what the Content Aware Fill feature does with those blurred areas.

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meyendlesss wrote: Devil 666 ...Evil Thread! Devil Stevie may find it a little funny it was started by you, Fred Wink

I am far more concerned with a feature like this, if it works well, causing more and more people to decide against buying Filter Forge, filters or renderings. What Stevie never appeared to understand is that I am much more on his side that against the specifics of that topic.

It's both a good and bad thing i think. The good thing is it allows to create things like textures simply by quickly correcting things like parts of the photo etc.

Then the bad thing to this is it will cause lots of problems in that people will be removing signatures, watermarks and overlays then taking credit for others work on a larger scale. This happens now but things like watermarks for artwork helps stop others from taking something then applying a color filter and effect etc then saying they made it but with new technology like that if it is good enough this basically means anyone can do what they like with watermark protected artworks etc.

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James wrote: It's both a good and bad thing i think. The good thing is it allows to create things like textures simply by quickly correcting things like parts of the photo etc. Then the bad thing to this is it will cause lots of problems in that people will be removing signatures, watermarks and overlays then taking credit for others work on a larger scale. This happens now but things like watermarks for artwork helps stop others from taking something then applying a color filter and effect etc then saying they made it but with new technology like that if it is good enough this basically means anyone can do what they like with watermark protected artworks etc.

Interesting. Wiping out watermarks had not occurred to me. I wonder if anyone has pointed it out to Adobe?

Craig, I agree ... but I agree with James also. According to my sign guys, Gimp has had the feature for about a year and this product seems very capable with some neat videos for $40.

Kraellin of course i know people can remove watermarks which is why i said 'This happens now' the thing is though when people use things like clone stamp it usually leaves visible signs of this like blurs unless they are a master or spend a long time yet this instantly gives what seems to be perfect results.

Im sure adobe know about that also i am just pointing out it's not all good with something like this technology. People selling textures for example should probably expect a loss in sales and will need to display a image to the user using edge frames or whatever rather than semi transparent watermark which will still get stolen with this technology plus people planning to buy will want to see what they are buying still. I expect things like artwork will have parts extracted and modified then put in other peoples work that will claim to have made it and it would be harder to show they didn't. There is also ways to scale up images with much less quality loss now also so it just opens up a bad side also with dishonest people using the technology.

And yes this technology has been around for a while now, i remember there was also some resizing thing that did a similar thing where objects in the images would remain the same always even if just resized horizontally etc. That might of been the same thing maybe, with it now in photoshop and hyped up as the next big thing though everyone will know about it and be using it a lot more however which is why i expect this will become more of a issue.

Good morning Everyone,

Yes, CS5 looks very cool!

I pray that Filter Forge will ALWAYS be a very desireable program for many years to come.

At my work, we will be upgrading our CS3 to 4 very soon, Adobe told us If we do so, then, when CS5 comes out we get it FREE within 90 days.

Have a GREAT day

Ron

Here's one more video on CS5. Totally mind-blowing, it's almost magic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKjs8ZjQNg

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Sign Guy wrote: Personally, I think FF shouldn't try to do much of what PS does. Perhaps some conveniences ... ... ... FF's ends would be better served by focusing on the unique things that it does well rather than trying too hard to emulate PS.

My thoughts exactly. That's the strategy we've chosen for FF in the beginning. We're not going to chase Photoshop. I don't feel that this CS5 tech threatens FF future in any way. Actually, quite the opposite -- I'd be a lot more worried if Adobe started to improve Photoshop's ability to generate stuff procedurally.

freakin cool. boy, new camera, paint shop pro x2, photoshop cs5, filter forge 2, a relatively new quad core 64 bit computer... can you say 'addicted'?

thats very similar to whats in Flash - interesting for dewarping

I hate to be a necro-thread-mancer, but does anyone know if Filter Forge 1.020 Basic will be updated to operate as a plugin with CS5? The ability to operate within a layered framework was very important to my use of Filterforge, and I'd like to have that back if possible, rather than saving to jpg, then loading in FF standalone, then saving, then importing back to Cs5.

I understand FF2.0 is in beta, so I don't know what level of support 1.0 is currently enjoying.

Thanks.

James.

windows 7. PLease, share this workaround!

It worked!!! You just saved me a lot of work, GMM. I am -very- grateful.


- James.