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Adobe previews improved Photoshop Content-Aware Fill capabilities that are coming ‘soon’

28 Sep

Adobe has offered a sneak peek look at the Content-Aware Fill update it will be bringing to Photoshop in the near future. The changes are introduced by Photoshop Product Manager Meredith Stotzner, who explains that Adobe plans to add new ‘Auto’ and ‘Custom’ sampling area options to the tool when it is opened using the application’s Edit menu, these joining the existing ‘Rectangular’ option.

By tapping its Sensei AI technology, the Content-Aware Fill’s new Auto option will analyze the image, find the pixels immediately bordering a selection and then apply the fill using those pixels for an improved final result. The Custom option, meanwhile, gives users complete control over the sampling area selection so that users can ‘brush [their] sampling area from scratch,’ according to Stotzner.

A demonstration of both of these new capabilities have been shared by Adobe in the video above. The company says it will be introducing Auto and Custom to Content-Aware Fill soon, but it hasn’t provided a specific release date at this time. The video indicates the update will arrive before the end of the year.

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Adobe After Effects gets Content-Aware Fill, more in latest Creative Cloud updates

04 Apr

With the annual NAB media show coming up, Adobe has rolled out its spring update for the Creative Cloud video and audio apps, including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Character Animator.

After Effects now comes with a new Content-Aware Fill function for video which works pretty much in the same away as the still image version in Photoshop. Users can select an object in the footage that they want removed and Content-Aware Fill does the job automatically, filling in the background.

Premiere Pro now features a new Freeform Project panel that lets you organize clips into select shots, making it easier to build and visualize project ideas. In addition text and graphics alignment is made easier through rulers and guides as well as guide templates that can be shared between After Effects and Premiere Pro. Adobe has also managed to speed up mark tracking. The company says this will make color and effects workflows more efficient. H.264 and HEVC encoding has been optimized for smoother playback in Premiere Pro and After Effects.

In After Effects users have now a an Expressions Editor at their disposal. It was designed with advanced users in mind, for examining code visually and comes with features such as syntax highlighting, line numbers, matching brace highlighting, and code folding.

In Character Animator puppet rigging has been improved to give more personality to characters and new Twitch live-streaming triggers allow for enhanced livestream performances, allowing viewers to engage with characters using real-time costume changes, dance moves, gestures, and poses.

As usual, there are also a range of general bug fixes and performance improvements. All improvements and new features are described in more detail on the Adobe blog. The updates are available now.

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NVIDIA’s content-aware fill uses deep learning to produce incredible results

24 Apr

Adobe Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill is the current industry standard when it comes to removing unwanted artifacts and distracting objects, but that might not always be the case. Because while Adobe is currently working on an advanced deep learning-based “Deep Fill” feature, NVIDIA just demonstrated its own AI-powered spot healing tool, and the results are pretty incredible.

As you can see from the two-minute demonstration above, the prototype tool can handle both basic tasks, like removing a wire from a scene, as well as more complicated tasks, such as reconstructing books and shelves inside an intricate library scene.

The secret behind this tool is NVIDIA’s “state-of-the-art deep learning method” that the tool is built on. Not only does the tool use pixels from within the image to reconstruct an area—it actually analyzes the scene and figures out what it should look like when it’s finished. This helps to create a much more accurate and realistic result, even when the original image is an absolute disaster.

The best examples of this can be seen in a paper NVIDIA team members published titled ‘Image Inpainting for Irregular Holes Using Partial Convolutions.’ As seen in the comparison images below, NVIDIA’s tool blows Photoshop out of the water when reconstructing portraits where much or most of the face is removed.

From left to right: the corrupted image, Adobe’s Content-Aware results, NVIDIA’s results and the actual image.

In the discussion section (section 5.1) of the aforementioned paper, NVIDIA says its “model can robustly handle holes of any shape, size location, or distance from the image borders. Further, our performance does not deteriorate catastrophically as holes increase in size.”

NVIDIA does note, however, that “one limitation of our method is that it fails for some sparsely structured images such as the bars on the door,” as seen in the image comparison below.

From left to right: the corrupted image, NVIDIA’s results and the original image.

Current shortcomings aside, this particular tool—prototype or otherwise—appears to be leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else that’s currently on the market. Unsurprisingly, there’s no word on when, or if, we’ll ever see this hit the market, let alone in the consumer market, but we’ll keep our fingers and toes crossed.

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Adobe updates PhotoShop CC with content-aware crop, face-aware liquify

22 Jun

Photoshop CC 2015.5 introduces a couple of editing tools that have been showcased recently by Adobe, as well as a new selection and masking workspace. 

Face-aware liquify uses facial recognition to identify facial features, offering slider adjustment tools to change the shape of a nose or a mouth, for instance. Content-aware crop aims to fill in blank canvas space around an image resulting from a horizon adjustment, for example, applying the same logic as the existing content-aware fill tool. In addition to these new retouch tools, users will find a new selection and masking workspace, making it easier to isolate elements of an image with tools like refine edge brush. 

With this update, Adobe claims that Photoshop CC will open documents faster and performs with better overall responsiveness. Specifically mentioned is content aware fill, which Adobe claims will be ‘up to 3X faster with even better results.’

Subscribers can update to Photoshop CC 2015.5 starting today.

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Content-aware cropping coming soon to Adobe Photoshop CC

27 May

Adobe Photoshop CC will soon offer content-aware cropping, the company has announced. The feature, as demonstrated in a video released today, will allow Photoshop users to automatically fill any white space around an adjusted photo with content that matches the original image. The tool can be used to add content (to change the aspect ratio, for example), or to fill in gaps that result from rotating or repositioning the image.

Content-aware cropping has been a frequently requested feature, says Adobe. The company will include the new cropping tool ‘as part of an upcoming major release,’ though it doesn’t specify whether it will be the next major update or a later one.

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When Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill Made My Mouth Drop Open

25 Sep

When Adobe began demonstrating Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5 it generated 2 reactions on average. The first fear about the removal of watermarks identifying the work of photographers and the second was an enthusiastic roar about the creative possibilities. Adobe of course was aiming for the later response.  Since the release of Content-Aware Fill I’ve often used it to fill in gaps when my canvas is rotated to straighten an image, remove objects creeping into the edge of my image, etc. With each subsequent version of Photoshop released Content-Aware Fill has seemingly been able to handle more and more complex scenes.

During a recent edit using Photoshop CC I went back to work on some images with contrails reflected in water where the rocky bottom was still visible. At the time the photo was taken I thought it was ultimately unusable, as I wasn’t about to release an image with reflected contrails. For fun I decided to put Photoshop to the test to see how well it could fill in a complex pattern such as this. I was blown away that it took care of the contrails in a single shot.

Unedited – Zoom View

Content-Aware Fill Employed – Zoom View

If you look closely in the zoomed version of the image, the rocks have an organic pattern while the contrail is completely removed. While I expected that the upper right section of the contrail would be handled easily due to its transition to a nearly pure colored gradient, the random rocky pattern on the left  I figured would be too complex to be addressed cleanly. I was pleasantly surprised when I zoomed in at 100% and 200% to see that all the rocks had continuous edges and didn’t have any obvious signs of being edited. It was at this point my mouth dropped open in amazement.

Unedited  – Full Image 

Content-Aware Fill Employed – Full Image

Sunrise at Two Medicine Lake with Sinopah Mountain reflected in the calm water – Glacier National Park

Adobe’s Original Content-Aware Fill Demo

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Retouch images faster with new Content-Aware Patch

14 Jan

Bringing imaging magic to Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 software, the acclaimed Content-Aware family of tools lets you retouch or recompose images with astonishing ease, control, and speed. One of the newest of these intelligent editing tools, Content-Aware Patch, was just introduced in Photoshop CS6.

What is Content-Aware Patch?

Content-Aware Patch is designed for times when you want to remove unwanted content from a photo and then replace it with a precise and seamless patch. The tool automatically creates the patch for you, but only after you’ve shown it exactly which area of your image you’d like it to sample from.

And it uses Content-Aware technology to blend the patch into the surrounding area.

Patching challenges

The Content-Aware Fill option introduced in Photoshop CS5 is a great choice when you want to remove unwanted content from an image. Once you’ve deleted your selected content, it can analyze the surrounding pixels and then fill the space with content that matches those pixels. In some cases, though, Content-Aware Fill doesn’t return the desired results. For example, it can fill the space with poorly matched content if the area surrounding the deleted content lacks consistency or a discernible pattern.
How does Content-Aware Patch solve the problem?

Content-Aware Patch gives you superior results by letting you determine the area it will sample from to create your patch. For example, if you want to remove an object from a tight row of similar objects, you can tell Content-Aware Patch to sample from a nearby background area to create a precise and natural-looking patch.

Retouch with greater precision

Content-Aware Patch gives you a fast and easy way to perfect your images. Simply delete the content you don’t want, direct the tool to the patch material you think will work best, and then watch as it uses Content-Aware technology to magically create a stunning result.

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Photoshop tutorial: The Crop tool and Content-Aware tool | lynda.com

24 Oct

This Photoshop tutorial discusses how to use the Crop and Content-Aware tools to extend the canvas and background of a photograph. Watch more at www.lynda.com This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter three of the Photoshop for Photographers: Portrait Retouching course presented by lynda.com author Chris Orwig. The complete Photoshop for Photographers: Portrait Retouching course has a total duration of 6 hours and 4 minutes, and explores techniques for reducing wrinkles, enhancing eyes and other facial features, improving hair, retouching makeup, and reshaping portions of a portrait using transformations, the Warp tool, and the Liquify filter. Photoshop for Photographers: Portrait Retouching table of contents: Introduction 1. Getting Started 2. Removing Distractions in the Frame 3. Making Creative Image Adjustments 4. Improving Skin 5. Improving the Shadows and Highlights 6. Reducing Wrinkles 7. Enhancing Eyes 8. Cleaning Up Eyelashes and Eyebrows 9. Retouching Lips 10. Whitening Teeth 11. Improving Hair 12. Adding and Changing Makeup in Photoshop 13. Advanced Skin Smoothing 14. Enhancing Shape and Structure in Images Conclusion

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Photoshop Content-Aware Fill [Video Tutorial]

19 Oct

In this tutorial Phil Steele from Photoshop Basics for Photographers shares a great little tutorial on a feature called ‘Content Aware Fill’ that is in recent versions of Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements.

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Adobe Photoshop CS5: Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek

09 Aug

Now in Photoshop CS5. Try or buy Photoshop CS5 at bit.ly One of the biggest requests we get of Photoshop is to make adding, removing, moving or repairing items faster and more seamless. From retouching to completely reimagining an image, here’s an early glimpse of what could happen in the future when you press the delete key. CS5 is coming on April 12 – www.adobe.com

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