![]() It's not quite the shining star I'd been lead to believe. For CS5 customers you'll need to use wisely, just like you currently have to do when using the Heal or Patch tools. ![]() So, in summary, the new Content Aware fill will certainly do a better job for those who cannot clone to save their lives, but maybe they're the sort who will be buying Photoshop Elements not CS5. You'd need to skip and do manually.Ī good job done here, but this would haveīeen just as easy with existing CS3/4 tools. To the left, has been totally misunderstood. What seems like a simple fix, like the one As you'll see from the following four illustrations, the tool is clearly very much hit and miss. ![]() Here the videos and guides suggest you make a selection around any area you want to remove and with the selection active go to fill and choose the new Content Aware option from the dropdown. The same can't be said about more complicated areas. I found you need to set a smaller brush and a hard edge to make the fill work better and on this post it's truly worked like magic (below right) and much faster and more precise than with CS4's tools.Ī hard edge brush does a much better job. See the before and after illustration below left. I also set it to a large feather as this generally smooths out areas better. I did what I would always do and choose a brush size larger than the area I wanted to remove. Using the Spot Healing Brush tool I painted over the post. I used an image that has various areas that we can test the effectiveness of the tool on.įirstly a simple iron post removal. Where the heal tool often became confused and added a blurred messy patch, the Content Aware tool promises to leaves us with perfection. A distracting tree, rubbish in the landscape, unwanted posts, skin blemishes can be eradicated at the drag of a brush. Well that's what all the leaked promotional videos show, which could save us hours of complex editing using the heal or patch tools. This Content Aware feature allows you to paint over any content you don't want and fill the chosen area with matching pixels automatically sampled from multiple areas around to give an intelligent seamless heal. If you choose the Spot Healing Brush tool you can now switch from the standard Proximity Match to the new Content-Aware option and start to use Adobe's proud development. It's in the tool bar where, among a few new additions, you'll find one entry point for the much talked about Content Aware tool. The hard edged antiquated shapes have a slightly more modern, softer gradient shading so remaining totally recognisable, but with a slightly softer edge.ĬS5 has several major new features, namely: The tool bar icons have had not so much a lick of paint, but more like a trickle of water. Hardly anything has changed in terms of appearance - the familiar clean, but old look remains. Instead we will look in detail at the Content Aware tool and review the other stuff that's been added that may be useful for photographers. In this review we won't look at CS5 software as a whole, because if you're interested in Photoshop you're likely to have absorbed reviews of earlier releases or you'll already own, or at least use, an earlier version. If you thought the Clone tool was good, and were later impressed with the more advanced Heal tool you're likely to be blown away by the Content Aware options. CS5 Extended takes a big step into the world of 3D, and adds some extra video features, but from a photographers point of view we're focusing on he standard Photoshop CS5 and the most talked about feature is Content Aware Fill. As usual with a Photoshop release there has been a fair amount of coverage leaked out over the past few months, this time even some controlled pre-release content from the tech-heads at Adobe. The Adobe Creative Suite CS5 is announced to the public today and part of this Suite is an upgraded Photoshop CS5. Peter Bargh is photographer, journalist and author who launched ePHOTOzine and is CEO of the publishing company Magezine Publishing Ltd.
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