Adobe’s gift to photographers – content-aware fill
By James • Apr 1st, 2010 • Category: Industry News
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Adobe Photoshop has been the premier graphic design and photo-editing suite for some time now, but many felt the software and the developing house had begun to rest on its laurels. This new feature in the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 5 shows Photoshop CS5 has found its mojo again.
Content-aware fill
The content-aware fill is, as its name implies, is an editing feature that is aware of the content in your image. Essentially, it will allow you to remove any element from a photograph and Photoshop CS5 will fill in the gap left. Photographers and graphic designers alike realize what a big deal this is. In a video, Adobe show the ability to remove trees from an environment in one image as well as the removal of an entire road in another, and have a natural background with roadside elements fill the empty space where the road previously was.
Though previously this feature could be faked through painstaking and costly – in terms of labour – tweaking, what Adobe has achieved with this content-aware fill is nothing short of engineering genius.
Engineering genius explained
- Photo: tricky ™ / Flickr
Adobe explains this technology works by analysing and organising objects surrounding the just-removed image and then rebuilds these elements, stitching them together, in place of the gap where your just removed image used to be.
Adobe Creative Suite 5
In addition to Photoshop CS5, Adobe’s catalogue of products include Premiere, the company’s video editing software, Illustrator, the vector drawing program, Flash, the online and animations platform, and After Effects, Adobe’s post production application. These are the star applications in the unrivaled Adobe Creative suite.
Photoshop has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years for having minor updates as opposed to game changing overhauls like Photoshop 7 had, but Adobe hope this content-aware feature will suck jaded fans right back in.
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