Cs5-content Aware Fill

[macka]

Interesting. Did you do any additional cloning or were you solely using content-aware fill.

Because I was watching my husband play around with this the other day and it was giving totally random results. It was filling the selected area with random areas of the remaining image, often not working properly at all, then randomly it would just work perfectly.

He said it was still useful in conjunction with normal cloning but certainly didn't look to me like the "instamagic" results they showed in the demo video.

[Ashanali]

Macka, it depends on the image.

We removed a drain pipe from brickwork the other day and it was perfect. I'm one of those people who can't STAND bad photoshopping and can spot at 100 paces areas that have been cloned repeatedly. I couldn't spot it at all.

In the images in the OP of this thread, I noticed a few errors with the content aware... but all stuff that could be fixed with a few seconds with the patch tool.

[macka]

I guess I'll have to try it out to get a real feel for it.

My OH basically said when it works, it's a real time saver.

[Jetty]

I want photoshop!

[PossumCorner]

Yes people were missing my point. It's not content-aware that is a mine-field, it's puppet-warp: not just sensibly removing a background fence-post that grows out of a head and so on. It means an animal's conformation and movement can be enhanced (to put it mildly).

And yes of course this has always been done, but it is usually done clumsily and badly and obviously by people not more expert or more aware - as Ashanali said - of bad photoshopping.

The point now is that the misrepresentation stuff can be done very easily and more seamlessly by anyone who cares to, with minimal skill. Wonderful for digital artists, but a Pandora's box all the same.

[Ravyk]

Interesting. Did you do any additional cloning or were you solely using content-aware fill.

Because I was watching my husband play around with this the other day and it was giving totally random results. It was filling the selected area with random areas of the remaining image, often not working properly at all, then randomly it would just work perfectly.

He said it was still useful in conjunction with normal cloning but certainly didn't look to me like the "instamagic" results they showed in the demo video.

I only used content aware fill BUT I did it in sections, some of them probably have a hundred or so CA fill selections. The only one which took one 'fill' to remove was the fisherman.

I definitely agree with you Possum Corner. This technology is great, but has very high possibilities of being abused.

[Shaar]

Wow, that puppet warp thing is amazing, but looks hard to use thankfully.

I just used good 'ol Paint Shop Pro and a Clone brush to fix the poodles front. I'd never do that with a show dog but just wanted to give an example of the scary things that can be done... given more time it could be done so that you would never tell it had been tampered with (at the moment his 2 front feet and one of his back feet are all the same foot )

For scenic images like those on the front page it is good because quite often you take a beautiful photo but there is just something in it that makes it look ugly.

I took some photos of our dogs at the beach but a couple of them had my OH's hairy legs in the background, I edited the legs out, printed them and put them on the wall.

[Kirislin]

Yep, I know a woman whose dog had sickle hocks IRL but you'd never know it by his beautiful stacked photos. I saw the original photo and the doctored one.