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Adobe Demonstrates Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop

Just wait until Adobe announces content aware features for Premier! Imagine this in videos. Adobe will be rolling in $$$ if they have that implemented.

To those wondering about the performance with the Content aware fill in Photoshop...keep in mind that CS5 has been engineered to use CUDA (Open CL) so those GPU's in your system will be rocking.
 
Very impressive.

Being a novice and removing a tree and adding clouds to one of my own pictures, as well as touching up other bits which took me hours.... I can see why this is so good.


Sadly being a novice, it probably wouldn't spot the one little bit of the picture I missed before getting it printed onto a large canvas.. Doh, I still niggles me!

Wheaty
 
belltree said:
To those wondering about the performance with the Content aware fill in Photoshop...keep in mind that CS5 has been engineered to use CUDA (Open CL) so those GPU's in your system will be rocking.
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CUDA and OpenCL are not the same - CUDA is Nvidia's set of GPGPU APIs - and commonly also the C/C++ libraries to use those. CUDA will only work with recent Nvidia GPUs.

OpenCL is a portability layer above CUDA - parallel with DirectX and other language bindings.

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The CUDA C/C++ librairies are available for OSX 10.5 and 10.6 - so yes, Adobe could be using CUDA on the Apples.
 
two things,

1. The puppet tool is really impressive, I hope that made it in to CS5 like the demos

2. This is gonna really make it hard with the new content aware fill for photographers and artists to protect their work, they are going to have to come up with a new algorithm for watermarking, since this is going to be so easy to remove watermarks, which in that picture would basically be comparable to that lens flare in the park. Istockphoto, and other such images might lose customers to people steeling images and removing watermarks.
 
jviphone said:
two things,

1. The puppet tool is really impressive, I hope that made it in to CS5 like the demos

2. This is gonna really make it hard with the new content aware fill for photographers and artists to protect their work, they are going to have to come up with a new algorithm for watermarking, since this is going to be so easy to remove watermarks, which in that picture would basically be comparable to that lens flare in the park. Istockphoto, and other such images might lose customers to people steeling images and removing watermarks.
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Great point
 
Funny how people were bashing the CS5 update in the thread announcing the release date. This thread has an entirely new tone of voice, even though these features were announced with another video long ago. Oh well, bring it on Adobe! :D:cool:
 
MattSepeta said:
" It's like magic! Philosophically, is this good though? Purists would cringe at this sort of thing. "

Who gives a crap.

The purists will whine and moan and blog and comment about how its not "photography" any more, while the new jack young guns are securing clients and making money :cool:
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That's the problem with 'new jack young guns' in a nutshell. People who care nothing about integrity, honesty, ethics, truth, etc. Just want to make a buck, everything else be damned.

It's not just photography either. Phrases such as..

"We'll fix it in the mix", "We can fix it in post" ...

all are substitutes for true skill and talent at the acquisition phase of media production.
 
ValSalva said:
It's like magic! Philosophically, is this good though? Purists would cringe at this sort of thing.
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Purists? Since when do purists work in advertising and design? Heavy image manipulation has been around since the beginning of advertising. This is just an easier/quicker way to do it.
 
MattSepeta said:
" It's like magic! Philosophically, is this good though? Purists would cringe at this sort of thing. "

Who gives a crap.

The purists will whine and moan and blog and comment about how its not "photography" any more, while the new jack young guns are securing clients and making money :cool:
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Just because "new jack young guns" can download the tools from pirate bay doesn't mean they actually have any talent or skill. PS is a tool.

Believe me, working in the film/tv industry, I've seen a lot of "young guns" that don't last more than a couple days b/c they actually don't know what they're doing and they don't have the attention span or brains to learn. But, yeah, they indeed have a pirated copy of Final Cut Studio and call themselves "Editors." What a laugh.
 
xdhd350 said:
That's the problem with 'new jack young guns' in a nutshell. People who care nothing about integrity, honesty, ethics, truth, etc. Just want to make a buck, everything else be damned.

It's not just photography either. Phrases such as..

"We'll fix it in the mix", "We can fix it in post" ...

all are substitutes for true skill and talent at the acquisition phase of media production.
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I've been in the business back when there was little to know computer image manipulation. Before the Scitex and Linotype-Hell Combi's. Before the Quantel Paintboxes. Back when there really was "airbrushing" to touch up photos. Back in the day when Playboy was at it's height, there really was very little "airbrushing" as it was a pain in the ass to do. You did almost everything in-camera and at the set. You had professional photographers that knew exactly what they were doing and could get the best image right then and there. Sure, they shot rolls and rolls of film....but they got the shot.

I've seen the industry grow more and more downhill as the years went by though. When Scitex and Quantel and Linotype-Hell came on the scene, it really revolutionized the industry. You had to have highly trained people sitting at those stations though that knew what they were doing. The equipment filled entire computer rooms with disk-pacts and climate control. But still, a quality product was produced using these machines.

Today it's a mess. The mantra truly is "we'll fix it in post". Don't take my word for it...next time you're standing in line at a grocery store or happen by a magazine rack, just look at the cover photos. They're terrible. For one, they can't really be called photos anymore. They're more illustrations than anything because the skin of the models or actresses are clone/heal brushed to the point of having no texture at all. Pick up a Playboy and look at the atrocities they call photography. They're terrible. Compare a Playboy magazine from 1977 to 2010 and you'd be shocked at the quality of photography that's gone downhill and the blatantly obvious photoshopping of everything.

Why? Because I'd say about 75% of the people who are the so-called experts in Photoshop have no clue as to what their doing. They may know the program...but they have no clue as to how to actually make something that's presentable. It's like the amateur photographer that buys the latest and greatest equipment and knows how to use all the features...yet still can't take a decently composed photo because they simply don't have the artistic skills needed. Focusing too much on the tool instead of the art itself.
 
Brian O Neills is an Irish pub in Houston. So...Byran O'Neills Hughs seems interesting.
 
Wow

I haven't see a compelling reason to upgrade my version of photoshop in a long time. This maybe the first time that I think there is a good reason to upgrade. I am looking forward to the release of CS5. I hopefully there will be enough there to get me to see the value. :)
 
xdhd350 said:
It's not just photography either. Phrases such as..

"We'll fix it in the mix", "We can fix it in post" ...

all are substitutes for true skill and talent at the acquisition phase of media production.
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*cough* Avatar's Oscar for *cough* Cinematography *cough-cough* :cool:
 
cmfilms said:
*cough* Avatar's Oscar for *cough* Cinematography *cough-cough* :cool:
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"Avatar" is of course an obvious work of fantasy using high tech tools. That's a good thing in my mind.

My gripe of course, is 'cleaning up' someone's sloppiness and passing it off as a 'real' photo, movie scene, or audio track.

To use the above example of Playboy, just watch the stunts in a 20 or 30 year old film. Real explosions and real cars/planes/trains, etc. being sacrificed for the sake of art. Most of the CGI in modern films looks cheesy and sticks out like a sore thumb to my eye.
 
xdhd350 said:
It's not just photography either. Phrases such as..

"We'll fix it in the mix", "We can fix it in post" ...

all are substitutes for true skill and talent at the acquisition phase of media production.
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These are the phrases that get me most, the phrase "Garbage in, garbage out" comes to mind. There is NO substituting for getting good material at the start.
 
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