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Mini Bridge pop out.................... Brilliant.
 
Installed my early this morning, as the Mac is now 64 bit the speed is blistering compared to CS4. Installed without problem but need to make sure my few plug-ins are re-installed & work (NIK & OnOne). More later
 
just posted this in the other thread but I'm so impressed I'll post it again. So far seems like a worthwhile upgrade from CS3.

I was very scepetical but content aware fill actually works!

spot the difference, and I'm not saying the two changes are perfect but took less than 10 seconds from start to finish.

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Content Aware fill....................

It works but needs contrasting scenes...... good for sky blemishes. For taking people out of shots, very hungry on resources.
 
Just downloaded CS5 and had a quick play with the Content Aware and must say I am quite impressed with it. This one took just a few seconds and the large file is fine.



 
psenior1 said:
just posted this in the other thread but I'm so impressed I'll post it again. So far seems like a worthwhile upgrade from CS3.

I was very scepetical but content aware fill actually works!

spot the difference, and I'm not saying the two changes are perfect but took less than 10 seconds from start to finish.
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Shadows on the ground, middle left, your watermark. Top left corner, wall altered.
 
Content aware quick try at none contrasting areas

My little girls ballet outfit.



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It does work but I think it will need some tweaking and it does not work in the replace feature.
 
Content aware is going to be what everyone wants to see in action, here's a few I tried, not blown away by any means by it but this was only a relatively quick effort. The beach scene with my daughter was horrendous and took quite a while and still looks crap, the one with my son wasn't too bad for a quick once over, but you can clearly see where he once stood.

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Well - for me the speed improvement and the content aware make it a worthwhile improvement

At the moment portraiture isn't working and neither is the OnOne suite

Here is a quick 5 minute play

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Intersting posts people. Its good to see that content aware does work but there are just some situations it can't handle. In most of the examples you can tell where it has cloned from. Looks good as a first implementation by adobe though.
 
Simon, have you noticed how there is less contrast where the balustrades used to be.

I know it is sampling the scene but we may have to mask back in some contrast too.

Nice work.

Have you tried this shot in colour.......... I suspect it doesn't work as well.
 
The demo of it that I watched was fabulous and the areas it seems to work best on are those on the edges of the frame.

I've not tried it yet but those who have tried it, is it better to select smaller areas of similar tones or is it best to just do a big lump no matter what the content?

I'm looking at the one of the little boy and wondering if that was done in one lump or smaller ones? Would it be better to do the sky section, the water's edge and the sand as three different sections?

Hmmmmm, have checked out the upgrade price and looks like it might be worth it. :)
 
tiler65 said:
Simon, have you noticed how there is less contrast where the balustrades used to be.

I know it is sampling the scene but we may have to mask back in some contrast too.

Nice work.

Have you tried this shot in colour.......... I suspect it doesn't work as well.
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TBH Tom I haven't and remember that a client will not see the before ...

I did it in colour and it worked fine but then saved over the top with the B+W :bonk:

Put it another way - In my view it has transformed a picture I liked to one I love - and I would never have attempted it myself as the time would have been prohibitive.
 
AliB said:
The demo of it that I watched was fabulous and the areas it seems to work best on are those on the edges of the frame.

I've not tried it yet but those who have tried it, is it better to select smaller areas of similar tones or is it best to just do a big lump no matter what the content?

I'm looking at the one of the little boy and wondering if that was done in one lump or smaller ones? Would it be better to do the sky section, the water's edge and the sand as three different sections?

Hmmmmm, have checked out the upgrade price and looks like it might be worth it. :)
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You need to use a combination of the healing brush and selection tools ...

I selected the railings in parts and did them using the lasso smart thingy

But it didn't like doing the dress shadows the same way - so tried the healing spot brush and it worked great.

I did have to zoom in to tidy a few edges - but hey - not complaining
 
Ali, it was one lump with some smaller touching up after. I didn't have time to try it properly and these were the only images I had on my laptop, dragged from the trash!

Love what Simon's done there, without seeing the original there's no way in my mind a client would tell that it's been edited other than remembering it was there from when it was actually shot!
 
Dman said:
Love what Simon's done there, without seeing the original there's no way in my mind a client would tell that it's been edited other than remembering it was there from when it was actually shot!
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Don't forget that with CAF you can repeat it if the results aren't quite what you were expecting first time round, or if it needs tidying up.
 
Colour version - again very quick as I had to start from scratch

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spxxxx said:
Colour version - again very quick as I had to start from scratch

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Awesome Simon :)

Oh and I mean the pic not the fancy railing removal - which is very clever of course, but the pic is a perfect 'moment'

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That's brilliant Simon!

I can see a new career move here...photoshop tutorials :)
 
Is content aware fill any quicker than the clone tool though?
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That took 4 and half mins, would look better working on the full res image obviously. So far I am only finding CAF to be more useful when removing small bits, bits on grass etc but for big things the clone tool seems easier and quicker, for me at least.
 
Tom it looks too repetitive IMHO
 
Thinking about it, I am sure on some of the videos I saw demo'ing CAF I am sure they used a brush, anyone worked out how to do that? I have been selecting areas and using edit > fill or if it is a background layer you can hit delete it seems.....can imagine a brush would be really useful.
 
Ill be interested to see the new cs5, but most of the content aware examples ive seen so far could be achieved with a simple copy and past and level adjustment in any other version of PS.
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
Thinking about it, I am sure on some of the videos I saw demo'ing CAF I am sure they used a brush, anyone worked out how to do that? I have been selecting areas and using edit > fill or if it is a background layer you can hit delete it seems.....can imagine a brush would be really useful.
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spot heal brush
 
Danny_Two said:
Ill be interested to see the new cs5, but most of the content aware examples ive seen so far could be achieved with a simple copy and past and level adjustment in any other version of PS.
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Really .... I couldn't have done the edit with that method
 
Try finding an image where you need to extend a background. Say a studio shot with the background stands in it. (That kind of thing or some other kind of unsuitable background that crept into the frame) Getting rid of it is so much easier with CAF than cloning especially where patterns are involved. Brickwork is amazing!
 
Right, enough of the content aware stuff, what else do you think is good/improved.

OP mentioned mini. Bridge ..................
 
Right, enough of the content aware stuff, what else do you think is good/improved.

OP mentioned mini. Bridge ..................
 
I think I saw something about an easy horizon fix once, was I dreaming? Also there's that puppet warp, has anyone tried it?
 
Has anyone managed to get plugins working yet? My Nik software doesn't seem to want to work.
 
Plugins - if you're using a Mac, and until updated version come out, I've found that booting in 32 bit mode enables my plug-ins. No idea if you can switch between 32 and 64 bit modes in Windoze as in OSX.
 
The problem with the content aware fill etc is that now anyone can do it and those of us that spent hours using the clone tools etc are now out of a job :suspect:

It looks really good and I would have been ordering it but my new car is ready next week and I am saving for my Lencarta studio order at the end of May! So I will just have to wait till June.
 
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