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Unbelievable! Such a time saver, I can’t wait until this feature is available!

WOW. Its really really seems to be fake! Unbelievable…

This is joke, right ?

That is so amazing it’s almost silly. Cant wait!

I love how we’ve got to this point where we now have ‘shopped photoshop demos.

I’m with the conspiracy theorists on this one. Having done a lot of retouching work, this seems far too good to be true. I’d love to be proven wrong though.

Here’s hoping the rest of the programs in the suite get worthwhile upgrades too.

Okay, if that is for real, then Holy Crap! It makes me wonder what else they’re working on if that was only a “sneak peek”!

I’m also having a hard time wrapping my head around how this can be possibe. One click ‘remove road, insert desert here’. They must have perfected the ‘CSI Zoom in on crappy security cam footage and ID the bad guy filter’ if they’re already developing this kinda wizardry. It’s a very cool concept tho. If it is possible, my job is gonna get a lot easier.

I want to believe.

Damn…things just got a whole lot easier.

I don’t see anything that leads to definitively conclude that the above content-aware fill preview is a fake. Even in the zoomed out view that we have in the video, you can see that there are subtle flaws (i.e. the tool is not perfect and, in my opinion, very believable). I have to disagree with the comment that identical results were produced with the GIMP-resynthesize plugin. The desert fill produced by the photoshop plugin preview appeared to have much more shrubbery than the GIMP-resynthesize desert fill, and in fact looked quite different when compared side-to-side.

I’m still marvelling at CS4’s merge-to-panorama function and it’s ability seamlessly stitch images taken without a tripod, on auto-exposure and with intense varying lens flares! I imagine that content-aware fill is well within Adobe’s abilities. If only they would release this amazing tool as a CS4 update!

I’m sorry but I can’t take this seriously. I would rather be pleasantly surprised that I’m wrong when CS5 comes out, but I’m going to go with and April fools joke on this one.

If this is true then I’ll spend $50 on Scott’s merch if I’m proven wrong. How bout them apples, you can hold me to it.

If this is an April fools joke it is a cruel one. This could help a lot of people and lead to some AMAZING art!

That is crazy cool. But I think I’m going to have to side with Jason Santa Maria on this one. I’d rather have more stable tools, that run faster, than these new fancy gimmicks. At the end of the day, that is what makes our day to day work-life better.

Look at the last iamge, top left corner; there is a bird in the sky. Where did the bird come from? Fake.

Ok just so you guys know the content aware fill is on the official CS5 launch website. So stop saying it’s a fake.

Here’s a link:

http://cs5launch.adobe.com/

I saw this video the other day too. The new feature looks really helpful and will save a huge amount of time for retouching. Can’t Wait..

Scott, why not just download Gimp and install the Resynthesizer extension to get a test drive of the technology. Gimp is really quite user intuitive and in many ways similar to Photoshop. I’ve been a strong Gimp user on Windows 7 for a while now. I’ll be trying this out myself soon when I get a chance. Thanks for the update!

So I can believe the first two examples, but not the third. That one is crazy.

I’m I the only one who thinks those weren’t particularly challenging retouching examples? He went on and on about removing that tree, but it wasn’t even touching anything else. It was just sitting against flat blue sky. He could have copied a big chunk of the sky on the right, pasted it on top, and feathered out the edges with the eraser in about 30 seconds. I’m hoping this is actually useful, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it will end up in the ever growing list of gimmicky photoshop features that I never use.

Seriously though, … the damage is being done … the message being sent out is that professional retouching is easy and can be done in a few minutes … in fact anyone can do it! Consequently, it becomes of little value, … certainly nobody’s going to be earning a decent living from doing this kind of work.

Assuming this is for real, I’d say it’s a great shame Adobe have gone for mass appeal gimmickry, … ultimately I think they’re cannibalising their own professional market.

Has anybody actually taken a closer look at the demo sample? I just zoomed in on the ‘retouched’ desert road … my eye was immediately drawn to the same sampled clump of bushes which I could see appearing at least three times adjacent to the original sample.
I can see other multiple repeats in there too! From this, I’m not that impressed, it’s way too obvious as to what has been worked on the image.
… It sure is amazing! ;)

@Paul Pichugin You’re spot on with your comments about the effect on the pro business … it’s just a shame that from what I can see at the moment it’s all gimmick and no substance! It’s actually not doing a particularly good job! Think of it as a glorified clone tool but with Photoshop this time trying to convince us that the software has the ability to think about what it’s doing … which of course it hasn’t!
When I look at an image, I don’t expect to even see subtle repeats in pixel data let alone blatantly obvious ones where quite large areas have been duped … to me it looks like a pattern fill … might be good enough for the masses though … who wouldn’t know good work from bad!

wrong thread lol!

thats downright incredible

According to the official preview today, this is real and shipping with CS5. http://cs5launch.adobe.com/