Comments on: Wider Angles: Photoshop “Content-Aware Fill”

By: Portrait Painter

Portrait Painter — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:23:35 +0000

It is very interesting to read what photoshop can do, and what new feautes it has. I sometimes use it myself, but as an artist, I really don’t like the sowtware part that turns your photos into paintings (or that they look like paintings). This part of photoshop can never compare to real art.

By: Allen Murabayashi

Allen Murabayashi — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:01:34 +0000

@nemo, photoshelter indexes images with both picscout and tineye.

By: Nemo

Nemo — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:57:31 +0000

I notice a lot of people are pondering the implications for watermark removal. Why not discuss this a little? What are you affraid of happening if someone removes your watermark? They sell your work as their own? They take credit for your work? These are the two that jump out at people right away. But like anything else, you have a responsibility to know where your own work is. Today there are so many alternatives to visible watermarks, but people don’t know or are hesitant to try, for whatever reason. PS comes with a product (that u need to purchase) that embeds a trackable watermark. So you know where your images are posted. Another alternative is a website called TinEye. There you can upload your pic and it will find all the places it was posted, even if it has been edited. The site isn’t perfect as it hasn’t crawled all websites yet and I am not sure how frequently it’s updated. These are just two many many ways to track your photos…. Remember with or without this PS feature, if people want to remove a visible watermark they will. One way or another.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:56:43 +0000

@Israel, Not true at all. If you Google you will find a fix for getting the plugin to work with the latest version of Gimp. I tried it and it was pretty damn impressive. Not nearly as impressive as Photoshop’s implementation though. I’ve got a copy of Photoshop CS5 and it works far beyond my expectations.

By: Israel

Israel — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:07:57 +0000

@Garry The Gimp plugin you’re referring to was abandoned well over a year ago and no longer works with updated versions.

By: Allen Murabayashi

Allen Murabayashi — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:10:20 +0000

@gary @art i agree that tools like this have been available for a while. i disagree with your premise that making it easier to use in a widely deployed setting has no effect on how the tool is used by the masses. i think there are very real implications — particularly insofar as photojournalism is concerned that are worrisome. as far as art and commercial photography — i agree that these types of photography are much more interpretations than an implication of reality.

By: Art

Art — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:51:00 +0000

This new Content-Aware Fill feature should not have anymore ethical implications than before. This same type of photo manipulation has been possible long before this feature ever came about. All this feature does is make the process quicker. I think that ever since beginning of the digital age of photography, we should take the authenticity of photos with a grain of salt, or treat it the same way we treat other forms of art; simply as an artist’s interpretation, not as truth.

By: Garry Knight

Garry Knight — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:22:42 +0000

Photoshop playing catchup again? Gimp has had this feature for years. http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-aware-fill-unbelievable

By: D.A.Wagner

D.A.Wagner — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:37:26 +0000

I don’t think Content Aware Fill is any more of a potential ethical nightmare (as Dr. Bob Carey calls it), than Photoshop itself. Photoshop has always made some kind of headline by it’s abuse in journalism over the years. This won’t be anything new. Those who abuse it to alter images for the sake of photojournalism have a creative deficit. Photoshop cannot replace hard work and experience. However, when it comes to retouching for the purposes of commercial photography, it’s simply a tool. Watch that John Nack video carefully and you’ll see the differences in tone on those large fills. It’s the healing brush, just bigger and a little better. I love Mike Davis’ idea of embedding a Photoshop history of what has been done to an image. Not just for the sake of preventing fraudulent use of Photoshop in Journalism, but a way of notation for remembering the process. And, on that note, if an image has been watermarked, maybe IPTC adds a field with a watermarked? check box indicating a watermark. That, along with the history, would indicate it had been removed. Frankly, Content Aware Fill is no more a “huge advantage” than the Rubber Stamp Tool. Professional retouchers have been rebuilding large areas of images for years using conventional Photoshop Cloning tools flawlessly. Look closely, Photoshop is a deep, complicated program and has a long learning curve to perfection. It’s not a thinking, breathing, intelligent being. It’s just Photoshop.

By: ProDesignTools

ProDesignTools — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:44:45 +0000

Talking about what Content-Aware Fill can do for you, did you see the new (real) demo with the photo of the woman in the swimsuit? http://prodesigntools.com/photoshop-cs5-revealed-plus-more-content-aware-fill-insanity.html (shot at PSW 2010)