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24-Mar-10 00:00

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Elated

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This is a forum topic for discussing the article "Adobe's Jaw-Dropping Content-Aware Fill":

http://www.elated.com/articles/adobes-jaw-dropping-content-aware-fill/

Adobe's new eye-popping Content-Aware Fill feature looks set to make designers' lives a lot easier (and no doubt shift a few units of Photoshop along the way). Matt takes a look at what this new feature might mean for the design industry.

25-Mar-10 21:34

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mauco

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Thanks Matt, for this very interesting piece of information. It's truly magical and jaw-dropping!

I'm sure a lot of Photoshop users would be more than happy to have this feature. But as you've mentioned, let's hope it would also work well on pictures that have a lot of contrast and users don't use it negatively to remove watermarks from other peoples photos.

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25-Mar-10 22:42

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BShingle

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This is absolutely blowing my mind. Great work!

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25-Mar-10 23:49

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matt

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Yes, it really is stunning isn't it. I can see this making a big difference in the design world. Can't wait to use it!

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26-Mar-10 04:15

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It really is immense. I wonder how well it works really, when you can get up close to the images?

If it works, a massive timesaver.

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26-Mar-10 07:05

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thetaphoto

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It sure looks great!!

Apparently a plugin for GIMP already exists that does the same thing. Haven't tried it yet but I'll give it a go!

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26-Mar-10 19:13

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katiewalker1995

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I use GIMP. Love it by the way. What's this plug-in? It'd be so helpful to have.

26-Mar-10 19:18

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thetaphoto

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The plugin is called Resynthesizer. Not sure how well it works. Here's the link: http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer

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26-Mar-10 19:20

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thetaphoto

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Here's a video I found on youtube with Gimp and resynthesizer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLtYPmRMYRE

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27-Mar-10 12:31

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najobskalf

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Has it occurred to anyone that April Fool's Day (April 1st) is very near? I was much impressed by this "magical" tool, until someone made that comment. Now I am not so sure. Why would the same demonstration be used for a (hypothetical) tool in Photoshop and for Gimp? Nice idea, though ...

27-Mar-10 21:33

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thetaphoto

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I'm assuming you're referring to my comment.

Well, all you have to do is download Gimp and the plugin from the link I posted and you'll see it for yourself! The point for the same demo was probably to show that Gimp can do now and for free what PS promises to do in the future for megabucks? Just a guess!

You're right about one thing though... it is "magical"!

I just tested it with Gimp 2.6 on Mint Linux and it works great! You just need to use Synaptic Package Manager and search for Resynthesizer to install (for those like me who are not used to the Linux way of things!

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28-Mar-10 02:50

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najobskalf

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What I still don't understand is that the Elated forum uses demonstration video(s) that are identical
to ones used elsewhere that are attributed to Gimp.

28-Mar-10 04:32

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matt

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@thetaphoto: Thanks for the Resynthesizer info. I just tried it out on GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu and it's pretty impressive!

I grabbed the images from Adobe's vid and tried it out (Filters > Enhance > Smart Remove Selection). Here are the results:

Tree:

Original: http://img185.imageshack.us/i/treek.png/
Result 1: http://img214.imageshack.us/i/treeresynthtry1.png/
Result 2: http://img337.imageshack.us/i/treeresynth.png/

Road:

Original: http://img97.imageshack.us/i/road.png/
Result: http://img222.imageshack.us/i/roadresynth.png/

Panorama:

Original: http://img27.imageshack.us/i/panoa.png/
Result: http://img153.imageshack.us/i/panoresynth.png/

As you can see, the tree removal failed the first time, and included bits of the background trees. When I selected a smaller area that missed out some bits of the original tree, it worked much better.

The road worked really well - just as good as Adobe's version in fact.

The panorama wasn't as good as Adobe's though - mainly because it missed the ground!

But anyway - amazing stuff.

This takes the shine off Adobe's announcement somewhat!

The GIMP developers should shout about this plugin more - I'd certainly never heard of it, and it's very impressive indeed.

@najobskalf: I'd imagine the creator of the Resynthesizer YouTube vid simply grabbed the images from Adobe's demo vid, as I did.

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28-Mar-10 05:15

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thetaphoto

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Pretty good results. I did find that it needs a bit of tinkering with the selection to get the desired effect, but in combination with the stamp tool and healing brush gets you there faster and in certain situations it's a one stop fix!

We need some coding wizard to step in and take the plug-in further. As I understand it from the Resynthesizer website, it is not being actively developed. Perhaps someone could improve it. Having said that, well done to Dr Paul Harrison for developing this for his PhD Thesis!

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28-Mar-10 09:39

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najobskalf

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Content-Aware plugins for Adobe Photoshop are clearly the future of photography - not to mention graphics in general.
The possibilities are limitless. It would seem that the Adobe version is more advanced in development and more powerful
than the Gimp version. Just look at the following mindblowing demos:

http://videosift.com/video/Seam-Carving-for-Content-Aware-Image-Resizing-wow

http://videosift.com/video/More-on-Photoshop-Content-Aware-fill

The second one is most impressive. How can I have ever doubted that this is the real thing!

29-Mar-10 18:04

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matt

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@thetaphoto: Yes, clever chap. I wonder if he patented it?!

@najobskalf: Ha ha, that second one is brilliant!

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21-Apr-10 19:12

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DigitalSea

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I've got a copy of Photoshop CS5 and to answer your question whether it removes those vases from the image you posted, yes. I only did a quick remove, but it worked really well.

See for yourself:
http://ilikekillnerds.com/NoVases.jpg

22-Apr-10 05:23

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simon

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@DigitalSea That's pretty good. The left column's a bit shot though! Still, with some tidying that'd work...

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24-Apr-10 23:19

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matt

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@DigitalSea: Impressive stuff - thanks for posting that. I love how it's managed to fill in the space on the right by repeating the rectangles from below it. With a bit of tidying up you'd never know the urns had been there!

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26-Apr-10 22:44

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DigitalSea

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No problem guys. I was honestly surprised how well it worked given the complexities of the image itself. With a little time and polish on it, you could get it close to perfect.

You'd have to use the spot healing brush set to a really small brush size and set to content aware to properly remove elements like that from images.