CS5 Content Aware Fill test

stormcrow · 18 May 2010

I received my copy of CS5 today so I did a quick test on one of my usual wonky photos.

I straightened the image then used the new content aware fill tool and although the results are not always perfect in this case it almost is. I'm impressed anyway; at least I can carry on forgetting about level horizons for the time being anyway.

Viper · 18 May 2010

thats brilliant!

Love this function

Im guessing it wont work properly with detail, or if theres something in the way of the main subject of the photo, i.e a lamp post in front of a car

Denyerec · 18 May 2010

Not bad at all. As Adobe mentioned, and as the press conveniently neglected to highlight, it's a great timesaving start-point tool, not a one-click magic button.

nice shot too BTW, where is that?

wippers · 18 May 2010

I've also just got my copy of CS5. How do you do this?? :thinking:

Deckard · 18 May 2010

That is impressive. A couple of obvious duplications, but they'd be easy enough to do a quick bit of manual cloning on afterwards, looking good.

stormcrow · 18 May 2010

Denyerec said:
Not bad at all. As Adobe mentioned, and as the press conveniently neglected to highlight, it's a great timesaving start-point tool, not a one-click magic button.

nice shot too BTW, where is that?

From my random tests today I'd agree it will save time but it is not magic, you still have to do some little tweeks but its a hell of an improvement.
The photo is of Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland

civicboy40 · 18 May 2010

ah good old Bambrough Castle.....i was there for the first time just over a week ago..well worth the trip up.

stormcrow · 18 May 2010

wippers said:
I've also just got my copy of CS5. How do you do this??

In this case I simply used the magic wand to select the blank areas I then expanded the selection by about 2 pixels then you go to Edit/Fill and make sure it is set to Content Aware then click ok.

stormcrow · 18 May 2010

Here is another test, I've done nothing to this except the content aware fill

DuncanDisorderly · 18 May 2010

Bloomin heck!
That's really impressive.
It would only take a tiny amount of hand editing to finish that seagull removal.

stormcrow · 18 May 2010

And finally my first go at the new refine edge tool

TG. · 18 May 2010

This looks good and could be very useful for some photos i'm PPing at the moment, i wasn't aware of this tool, could you elaborate more on it's use's or point to somewhere that does, many thanks

stormcrow said:
And finally my first go at the new refine edge tool

stormcrow · 18 May 2010

TG. said:
This looks good and could be very useful for some photos i'm PPing at the moment, i wasn't aware of this tool, could you elaborate more on it's use's or point to somewhere that does, many thanks

Have a look here this is the tutorial I was watching when I tried it.

http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs5

TG. · 18 May 2010

stormcrow said:
Have a look here this is the tutorial I was watching when I tried it.

http://www.photoshopuser.com/cs5

That looks very good indeed, thanks for the link

Cornholio · 18 May 2010

I love this new photoshop, does it seem quite memory hungry to you?
I found it seems to chew the hell out of any memory available?

stormcrow · 19 May 2010

Cornholio said:
I love this new photoshop, does it seem quite memory hungry to you?
I found it seems to chew the hell out of any memory available?

I've only used it for a couple of hours so I've not really noticed any memory problems also I've got 12gb of 1600mhz ram installed so I'd be worried if I did run short of memory

Trixster · 19 May 2010

I love content aware fill!

This:

becomes this:

Spot the cars!