I am so impressed with the new content aware feature on Photo shop CS5, i thought i would demonstrate just how good it is with a small demo! Now you know how they do those spot the difference puzzles in puzzle mags! It uses a glorified "copy and paste" technique but it works really well. I now use it to remove flies from the front of my car, or leaves in the grill! Amazing stuff. Took me 10 minutes to do both the images attached!

Not up on CS5 so don't know what this content aware thing is. I'm still on CS3

Anyway, Haven't looked at the waterfall image but going by the 500 image, it just looked like you have used the clone tool to take out various bits and pieces on the photo. You say the process took 10 mins and tbh it shows. I can see replication all over the place.

I can also see the fence still

Don't worry guys! This isn't going in a magazine...

It was just a quick example, don't stress

I'm not stressing. I just don't understand what you are demonstrating?

Bushboy said:

I'm not stressing. I just don't understand what you are demonstrating?

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Er see above

I did and I don't get it.

All I see is some poorly removed objects from a photo. Nothing clever really.

Perhaps this will help you understand what DraigFlag87 was trying to show you. Impressive really.

Bushboy said:

Not up on CS5 so don't know what this content aware thing is. I'm still on CS3

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CS5 Master collection(includes CS5 Photoshop) is available to download on most torrent sites, try it, I'm sure you'll like it.

Content aware is a great feature. Sometimes it's a bit off, but used to take ages with the clone stamp tool. Wonder what the next one will bring.

very impressive, gotta hand it to adobe for these things

sbsporting said:

Content aware is a great feature. Sometimes it's a bit off, but used to take ages with the clone stamp tool. Wonder what the next one will bring.

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Takes even longer with a developer. Also uses a s**t load of paper. I can see this as a great tool for the professional, perhaps more in advertising and publishing than for the amateur.

Being strictly in Old Git territory, I prefer the puritanical route, namely try and get it right when you take the image in the first place. Although I bought a Lumix with 18X zoom lens, I still try and take photos as I would do with my old Nikon film cameras. I am toying with the idea of trying to sell my F3 along with a couple of short lenses to fund a new DSLR, but I would like one perhaps more for the convenience of digital rather than any clever stuff like Photoshop.

A chap I used to know ( a long time ago ) who, in all probability is now deceased, used to take his old Hasselblad and tripod with only one lens up on to Kinder Scout in Derbyshire or the Llanberis Pass. His theory was that if he didn't get the right image, he would just walk off the hill and have a pint then go home without taking any photos at all. He believed that using only one fixed lens forced him to look for the best image without compromising by using zoom lenses or long telephotos.