New image manipulation tool

ScioAgapeOmnis

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Photoshop CS5 (the new version coming out this April) will have a tool called content-aware fill which lets you remove objects from pictures very easily. The tool automagically fills in the surrounding background making it possible to manipulate objects in photos much more easily than before. Here's a video demonstration, which I think is amazing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI
 
Thanks SAO,

It is truly impressive but also a very scary technology. In the wrong hands its downright dangerous, i am thinking of those terrorist photos displayed on TV to prove to the masses that so and so was there, he did it, it was caught on camera, it must be true etc.
Cs5 has just made manipulation that much easier! And spotting a forgery much more difficult.

Here is another clip _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKjs8ZjQNg&feature=related

Having said that i still want to use it for work related projects :D
 
It is really impressive. I remember the days of having to sit there for hours doing that sort of thing manually. :rolleyes:
I wonder how long the alphabet soup guys have had this? They can probably do this sort of thing in real time with video images.
 
RedFox said:
It is really impressive. I remember the days of having to sit there for hours doing that sort of thing manually. :rolleyes:
I wonder how long the alphabet soup guys have had this? They can probably do this sort of thing in real time with video images.

I even bet that there is a Photoshop CS 10 (Cosmic suite) which allows you to brush out people and events by going back in time and a clone tool for people as well :D :P
 
well i sincerely hope that CS5 will be better than CS4, which i am forced to work with at the moment.
i have been mad at adobe for months for releasing such a buggy, slow, bloated piece of garbage (all CS4 programs).

and about the 'content aware fill' - i believe that when i see it - all other 'automated' extraction tools have proven to be unusable (regardless how impressive they looked during an adobe presentation).

IMHO you can't automate the extracting process - just too many variables.
 
Iconoclast said:
well i sincerely hope that CS5 will be better than CS4, which i am forced to work with at the moment.
i have been mad at adobe for months for releasing such a buggy, slow, bloated piece of garbage (all CS4 programs).
Do you think it is slower/buggier than previous releases? I've used photoshop as a hobby for years and never really had any issues, although admittedly I don't use it professionally so there are some of aspects of it I haven't used. But as far as retouching photos goes, I've used filters, masks, layers, liquidate, all kinds of color correction tools, etc, I have never had issues. CS4 introduced the "content-aware scaling" which I found pretty handy in many situations.

Iconoclast said:
and about the 'content aware fill' - i believe that when i see it - all other 'automated' extraction tools have proven to be unusable (regardless how impressive they looked during an adobe presentation).

IMHO you can't automate the extracting process - just too many variables.
I think the "spot healing brush" and "healing brush" are both super handy in various situations. The content-aware fill looks like a more automated and intelligent version of those tools. But you can remove all kinds of unwanted objects seamlessly with those brushes already, as long as the background that goes behind the unwanted object can be found elsewhere in the picture.
 
rolyateel said:
Thanks SAO,

It is truly impressive but also a very scary technology. In the wrong hands its downright dangerous, i am thinking of those terrorist photos displayed on TV to prove to the masses that so and so was there, he did it, it was caught on camera, it must be true etc.
Cs5 has just made manipulation that much easier! And spotting a forgery much more difficult.

Here is another clip _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKjs8ZjQNg&feature=related

Having said that i still want to use it for work related projects :D

I think it's a little late to be worried about that. It has been done many times already. All those images of bin laden and al zawahiri etc in front of al-qaeda logos etc... all doctored by those wonderful people at SITE.
 
Imagine what COINTRELPRO could do with it, or better, perhaps if they have something like this long time ago.

Thanks for posting I'm using PS, PSI (CS3) and CD XI and these programs already have advanced tools to play with photos, but obviously pretty soon will be hard to know what is REAL and what is FAKE in world of re-brushed pics :(
 
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