Sweet mother of lord CS5 Content aware is good !

Combat squirrel · 2 May 2010 at 17:59

As title !!!! lol, ok its not quite what the video says in some cases, but in this case here it was, origonal shot had an awkward 3rd dancer which I noticed and people had said from feedback:

Images a slightly bigger than normal posts for image analysis

In CS5 with content awareness on, I just highlighted her and the 3 heads at the front as if I was using spot healing and this is what it came up with :eek:

NOT BAD ! Give it a go guys !

mcc49 · 2 May 2010 at 18:11

It is pretty good but no way near as good as what Adobe want you to believe from those videos. Abit hit and miss for me, but I feel with that photo the background is so simple and plain that you can probably shop out the girl quite easily even without content aware fill.

Neil79 · 2 May 2010 at 18:28

Good? , sorry but it looks like you tried to clone her out and failed... I've tried this content aware fill and it messes up many photo's . Tried it on a bit of rope across grass and across someone's trouser leg and it went crap. Not only did it corrupt the guy's trouser leg but it made lots of clones of the grass which was very noticable.

Gimmick , i'd be annoyed if i bought this

asim18 · 2 May 2010 at 18:57

You should clean that up with the clone stamp tool. The curtain looks a bit messy where you removed her.

Adrianr · 2 May 2010 at 19:06

Neil79 said:
Good? , sorry but it looks like you tried to clone her out and failed... I've tried this content aware fill and it messes up many photo's . Tried it on a bit of rope across grass and across someone's trouser leg and it went crap. Not only did it corrupt the guy's trouser leg but it made lots of clones of the grass which was very noticable.

Gimmick , i'd be annoyed if i bought this

This unfortunately. It really is very poor. The more annoying thing is all I'm going to hear now is "Can't you just content aware fill that thingymabob, it'l only take 2 seconds".

I'm tempted to make a topic to have people submit say 10 random images, which can be attempted to be 'content-aware-filled' just to see what sort of results we get back. The fact it won't let me use it on a new blank layer pretty much removes it from my workflow, but I would be interested to see what others get.

Rroff · 2 May 2010 at 19:12

If it really worked as well as with that image then it would save quite a bit of initial time masking/blocking out, etc. but you still need to polish it up, quite a few artifacts and inconsitances that need airbrushing.

King4aDay · 2 May 2010 at 19:48

Yer, haven't been particulary impressed with many of the real exmaples I've seen, but having said that I think people are being over-ambitious with it.

Neil79 · 2 May 2010 at 20:31

King4aDay said:
Yer, haven't been particulary impressed with many of the real exmaples I've seen, but having said that I think people are being over-ambitious with it.

LoL well i used it on a long line of rope across grass and not only could you clearly see the rope line but it cloned bits of the same brown grass again and again. I could clone better!

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 2 May 2010 at 23:10

You have replaced a girl on a black background with.... a black background. Not exactly brill?
The sideways insertions of curtains is messy.

Printed out this would look rubbish.

Not meaining to come across personal or anything as I know I sound harsh

Combat squirrel · 3 May 2010 at 02:31

Well what im trying to say guys is for a 1st attempt all in the PC its damned good, yeah tomorrow ill post the done up version, but serously the point of it is its THAT GOOD in terms of the touching up will be MINIMAL, is what im trying to point out, come on really, for a computer its a damned good start. And thats what it is in my mind, a start that requires minimal editing, instead of the long haul approach from point 1.

tbs · 3 May 2010 at 09:56

Id say thats good to quickly get rid of something, and then do a bit of manual retouching yourself on top. No one is saying its going to work like magic, but I think its going to be good for most of you guys. Take a look at this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18141316 lol

Dave85 · 3 May 2010 at 16:24

I watched a video of the guy removing a whole tree then a road and replacing desert and the final video of rebuilding half a image with mountains and sky was amazing.

Neil79 · 3 May 2010 at 17:18

DAvE18 said:
I watched a video of the guy removing a whole tree then a road and replacing desert and the final video of rebuilding half a image with mountains and sky was amazing.

Don't be fooled

syke · 3 May 2010 at 17:27

It's not gonna be a wonder maker, it'll just save probably an hour or so of cloning, and then you just need to clean it a tad. Saves a lot of time on stuff, but I would't try cut out a whole building with it!

Cosimo · 3 May 2010 at 17:36

As I’ve said in the other thread, it’s not a miracle tool but with some work it will do for a quick fix or two.