Photoshop CS5

[01101001]

Content aware is a load of crap...Gone back to CS3
don't believe the hype

[bonsai]

It's worked brilliantly for me for small jobs that I'd have otherwise spent 5x longer doing with clone stamp/healing brush.

[01101001]

Must be me then..
I think i must be doing something wrong. I can clone loads quicker and it looks good but with the content aware it just looked crap.

[The_Jackal]

It was never meant to be completely idiot proof but most of the time it does a bloody good job compared to the previous heal tool giving you a good head start to finish the job.
Obviously it depends on how big an area you were trying remove and what the background is like.
I was happy with it on this shot.


At the end of the day it is only a tool to be used how you see fit.
Can you show us the pic and what you were trying to remove?

Edited by The_Jackal on Friday 30th April 23:05

[d1d215]

Jackal - good stuff. Am I the only one who thinks that the house on top is distracting ? otherwise - good job.

[01101001]

I was messing around with this old rig shot

[Andy M]

I always wait a few months, and a few updates, before I upgrade. Am liking what I see with CS5; it appears much more of an update than that of CS3 -> CS4.

[rottie102]

d1d215 said:

Am I the only one who thinks that the house on top is distracting ? otherwise - good job.

+1

[nick heppinstall]

And the person in the white trousers

[The_Jackal]

So assuming those few pixels were taken out, any comment on the actual photo lol

[nick heppinstall]

The_Jackal said:

So assuming those few pixels were taken out, any comment on the actual photo lol

No leave 'em in. It adds to the overall effect

[Gruffy]

Content Aware seems like an incredibly useful headstart in certain situations, though there will be plenty of circumstances where it just won't work. Fantastic feature though.

[The_Jackal]

You will find you have to fiddle a bit when you are trying to remove stuff along the border of another object. You will probably still need to use good old clone along the edge. You just need to be a bit clever in choosing smaller areas to heal/fill. Depending on whether you use Content Aware Fill or Heal you will get different results.

In some of my other shots it was so easy removing people in the background standing on the banking with the heal tool.

[flat-planedCrank]

Doesn't look like a one-click solution from what i've seen (even in the example preview videos), but it still looks like an amazing feature that'll save hours of work.

For jobs like dust spot removal it looks to be awesome - http://vimeo.com/10939147



Cheers.

[d1d215]

nick heppinstall said:

And the person in the white trousers

oh yeah ! thanks, for telling - now that annoys me aswell ! . but they are all a quick fix

[01101001]

I take it back...I have been messing all day and it is not all bad.