Photoshop Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek

bacon said:
Well if MS had actually created a competing product many years ago no one would even know what flash is. I hope CS4 will have it as well, don't want to upgrade.
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Anyone that thinks us CS4 users are gonna get a free upgrade to have this ability is smoking the good stuff. There's no way they would do this, and it completely goes against their entire business model that they've used for CS software for as long as I can remember. They've got to come up with something in every release to appeal to someone.
 
bacon said:
Well if MS had actually created a competing product many years ago no one would even know what flash is. I hope CS4 will have it as well, don't want to upgrade.
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Flash was fine when it wasn't Adobe's up until Macromedia's last version. Then Adobe made it worse. It was a little later Microsoft felt they had to bring something else to the plate - Silverlight.
 
GIMP addon was nice, but.. the usual problems I find with opensource products

8/10/2009: I haven't really been keeping up with API changes in the GIMP, or with emails people send me. If you emailed me and I haven't replied, I'm sorry. If you want to take over as maintainer of this project, email me. Other emails will probably continue to sit unread in my inbox.
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from http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer

i tried it, though its similar to the content-aware filter, the gimp version does have more artifacts. though its a start
 
I just tried the gimp one a about a dozen different things including the images they used as examples and it does not work as advertised. it did get 2 or 3 images close to right but the others it was making the image worse. for instance I tried removing the road from the desert....it filled it with sky, actually trying to remove anything from the desert fills with sky. other things it just took a pile of textures from around the map and did something terrible to the image.

Not saying it has not use, small blemishes can be removed in some situations.
 
I've seen plug-ins like this before, but this definitely works better than they did. Pretty nutty.
 
Soggy said:
Not saying it has not use, small blemishes can be removed in some situations.
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It was mentioned that one had to use an included script for best result. I haven't tried to plugin but took a quick look at the source code. There's quite a bit of "black magic guesswork" in there, the way it basically works is by randomly looking around a subset of the image for a pattern marching the area around a pixel one want to fill in. I think it's neat that it works at all and what Abobe's "content aware fill" is doing better is likely the heuristics (i.e. guesswork drawn from experience) which can only be found out trough lots of trying, failing and tweaking.
 
I can't even begin to imagine just how complex those equations must be that are doing this. This is absolutely amazing.
 
This is AWSOME and if it works as advertised it would be something I would be willing to pay for. I just upgraded to CS4 however so I would not be willing to do a totally new full upgrade.
If Adobe wants to keep us loyal it would go a long way if they would offer some interum upgrades, like this, for a reasonable download fee..
 
Azhar said:
Flash was fine when it wasn't Adobe's up until Macromedia's last version. Then Adobe made it worse. It was a little later Microsoft felt they had to bring something else to the plate - Silverlight.
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That may be true, but how many features have been added since then?
 
It works half the time. That's from playing around with the CS5 PS Extended trial software. I'm no pro image editor/artist but my hopes were high now they are back to reality.
 
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