I’d seen some sneak peeks of the new Content Aware Fill function of Photoshop CS5 in video demonstrations, and whilst in awe at what I was seeing, I assumed it wouldn’t be as easy in reality and the workflow was generally sped up. Well, having downloaded the trial version of Photoshop CS5, I can say I am won over. Content Aware Fill is mind blowing. I’m not even sure how it works or what sort of algorithms are happening behind the scenes to be able to intelligently manipulate an image, but it just works.
But an image, as they say, is worth a thousand words. So look at these two images. The edit was a quick job, less than 2 minutes in fact. It’s not perfect, but look what you can achieve with just a few clicks.
Before Content Aware Fill
After Content Aware Fill
Not bad for 2 minutes work. Content Aware Fill isn’t going to give perfect results all the time, but it’ll certainly speed up your digital workflow exponentially. Hey, maybe we don’t have to worry about good composition anymore. Annoying tree in the way? Clone it out. That’s sarcasm by the way. I do not condone poor composition.
