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Video link: Content-aware Fill in Photoshop CS5

James — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:55:07 +0000

It’s well over a year since CS4 came out and introduced some cool new content-aware transformation tools (see an earlier post about content-aware scaling in CS4) and with the release of CS5 it turns out we’ll have another awesome content-aware trick added to our toolkit. Check this video out:

I just don’t know what to say; it’s totally awesome.

A reason why Photoshop CS4 kicks ass

James — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:02:54 +0000

Here’s one reason why Photoshop CS4 kicks ass (here’s something completely new).

It’s called “Content-Aware Scale“. Unlike the transform controls from previous iterations, this scaling mode is somehow aware of the contents of an image and can discern what elements you want to scale.

So when you start scaling up or down, only the elements like the sky, water, background elements stretch and the people and buildings maintain their perspective and float around the scaling background. Pretty cool huh?

So here’s an image I’ve grabbed from Google – a panorama of Trakai Castle. In the image below I’ve scaled it to 50% width – the top image is “Content-Aware Scale”, and the bottom image is shrunk with the normal transform tools.

That took 30 seconds to do. How long would you previously spend cleverly masking and cloning areas of the image by hand to do that?

How cool is that – it’s image transformation, just like in the movies. Next we’ll be enhancing perfect images of suspects from pixellated CCTV footage, just like in CSI.

Automated removal of non-static elements with Photoshop

James — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:44:09 +0000

This is a short little video that demonstrates a quick and easy way of removing unwanted elements from your photos. To do it yourself, you’ll need several shots of your target – enough so that any area covered in one photo is uncovered in another. Once you’ve got that, Photoshop can automate the alignment and image compositing, to remove all those pesky people from your shot.

I found this through Stumbleupon, so I don’t know the full backstory / accompanying materials, if anyone would care to inform me!

http://www.jnack.com/adobe/photoshop/fountain/

Mastering Photoshop with psdtuts.com

James — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:55:26 +0000

Psdtuts (Photoshop-document tutorials) hit the scene a little while ago on digg, and I’ve had it on my RSS subscriptions ever since. Off like a dynamo with the Photoshop tutorials, I’d certainly keep an eye on it – looks to have potential to be another Smashing Magazine. (i.e. A big hit)

Now, my knowledge of Photoshop is ok, certainly on-par with those I work with, but Psdtuts? I’m a complete novice against them. I tried to do a couple of their tutorials as a demonstration, but they didn’t turn out so good. They make it look so easy, but I guess you need some mystical, innate knowledge if you’re going to compete.

My favourates have got to be;

What else can I say? go have a gawk.