Video of New Feature in Photoshop CS5: Content-Aware Fill

Just came across this on HN and it looks incredibly exciting – a feature in the upcoming version of Photoshop that allows you to fill spaces seamlessly and intelligently. The video highlights using it for removing unwanted artifacts (instead of using the spot healing tool) and patching large chunks of an image. It looks like it can be a bit CPU intensive when calculating larger areas, however achieving the same effect manually would take much, much longer.

Of note, this immediately brought back memories of PatchMatch, a patching algorithm created by researchers from Princeton and Adobe Advanced Technology Labs. Check out the video below:

Update: New Video!

Here is a new video of the new Content-Aware fill that just surfaced on YouTube (thanks Matt!):

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  • Mohammad

    WOAH!
    That is MAD COOL

    the panorama thing blew my mind!

    • Monji

      No joke, it’s almost magic! I am curious though as to the exact quality of the patching, it’s hard to see detail in the YouTube video.

      • Mohammad

        True, but even if it’s not perfect, it still saves loads of time in the end

  • Matt

    Some even better examples of this awesome content-aware feature:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScWu7pG7r0

    So amazing!

    • Monji

      That is hilarious! Thanks for the link Matt, I’m adding it in as an edit – I don’t want people to miss it!