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Photoshop CS5 Content-Aware Fill
You may have seen the video offering a sneak peek at Photoshop CS5's Content-Aware Fill. I've done some experimenting on my own, and my review of this feature is: good in certain circumstances, and a good start in others.
Here's the video in question, if you care.
And here's my pictures:
The original, a picture of Sora looking vaguely grumpy in a sunbeam right in front of the hearth, accompanies by the Roomba lighthouse, and orange plastic mousie (behind and to his right), and scratches on the floor.
First of all, what's this orange plastic mousie doing ruining my lovely picture of Sora? And that huge scratch on the floor has to go.
Verdict: useful, especially when you're trying to remove an element surrounded by one distinct pattern. There's still a bit of distortion, but you'd probably not notice it unless I pointed it out, or unless you were suspicious about teh picture for other reasons and were examining it closely.
But wait! The mousie and the scratch are fine, but I've got to rid of that lighthouse!
Verdict: not quite so good when it comes to two different distinct patterns - it couldn't extrapolate enough to get the floorboard that runs parallel to the hearth correct. But that's something I could fix in touchups.
However, the lighthouse is perfectly fine, but what on earth is that cat doing in the middle of this perfectly good picture of a floor and hearth?
Verdict: Not convincing. Especially when you forget to include the shadow in the area to be filled. :)
Now with the shadow included, so you can see.
Verdict: It's not yet smart enough to find that strong diagonal where the hearth hits the floor and extrapolate from it.
But wait! I have no idea what all these other objects are doing in this perfectly nice picture of a floor and hearth! They have to go!
Verdict: Well, if I were in charge of cleaning up photos for an online property listing service, it would cut out a lot of the time I'd normally spend using the clone stamp to cover elements, but I'd still be putting in a lot of work. The cat toy in the upper left is almost without trace, just a discolored patch left. The feet of the plastic penguin above Sora's head were taken out nicely, and I"d jsut have to fix a bit of the brick. The couch in the upper right left some weirdness, which could be fixed as well.
But wait! What is this hearth doing in my perfectly nice picture of a floor?
Reductio ad absurdum. But you would all have been clamoring for me to do it anyway, wouldn't you?
So: be on the lookout for bad Photoshoppers to use this to get rid of Ginny and add Hermione to pictures of Harry Potter.
Here's the video in question, if you care.
And here's my pictures:
The original, a picture of Sora looking vaguely grumpy in a sunbeam right in front of the hearth, accompanies by the Roomba lighthouse, and orange plastic mousie (behind and to his right), and scratches on the floor.
First of all, what's this orange plastic mousie doing ruining my lovely picture of Sora? And that huge scratch on the floor has to go.
Verdict: useful, especially when you're trying to remove an element surrounded by one distinct pattern. There's still a bit of distortion, but you'd probably not notice it unless I pointed it out, or unless you were suspicious about teh picture for other reasons and were examining it closely.
But wait! The mousie and the scratch are fine, but I've got to rid of that lighthouse!
Verdict: not quite so good when it comes to two different distinct patterns - it couldn't extrapolate enough to get the floorboard that runs parallel to the hearth correct. But that's something I could fix in touchups.
However, the lighthouse is perfectly fine, but what on earth is that cat doing in the middle of this perfectly good picture of a floor and hearth?
Verdict: Not convincing. Especially when you forget to include the shadow in the area to be filled. :)
Now with the shadow included, so you can see.
Verdict: It's not yet smart enough to find that strong diagonal where the hearth hits the floor and extrapolate from it.
But wait! I have no idea what all these other objects are doing in this perfectly nice picture of a floor and hearth! They have to go!
Verdict: Well, if I were in charge of cleaning up photos for an online property listing service, it would cut out a lot of the time I'd normally spend using the clone stamp to cover elements, but I'd still be putting in a lot of work. The cat toy in the upper left is almost without trace, just a discolored patch left. The feet of the plastic penguin above Sora's head were taken out nicely, and I"d jsut have to fix a bit of the brick. The couch in the upper right left some weirdness, which could be fixed as well.
But wait! What is this hearth doing in my perfectly nice picture of a floor?
Reductio ad absurdum. But you would all have been clamoring for me to do it anyway, wouldn't you?
So: be on the lookout for bad Photoshoppers to use this to get rid of Ginny and add Hermione to pictures of Harry Potter.
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But there is one more you must try. Select Sora, then invert the selection, then delete everything that is not cat. Fill in the Universe with catness.
Thus was Fractal Cat created.
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