That last image blew my mind. The amount of programming recquired to do this is amazing. Photoshop will bring us to the point where no one but the creator/capturer of the photo will know if it was natural.

*quality *amazing

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Simply amazing, and the fact you can just do it again and again until it is right makes it so simple and easy.

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[edit] ok got to the desert and panorama part... i have a hard time beleiving that...

Motherfu... *promote!

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Now if they could only use that magic wand tool to bring photoshop down to a price thats reasonable and affordable.

um...can anybody verify that this is legit? The desert reconstruction set off my bullshit meter.

^Nevermind the desert. How about the panorama of the mountain?

>> ^dgandhi:
um...can anybody verify that this is legit? The desert reconstruction set off my bullshit meter.


Considering it was posted by the main Photoshop youtube channel, I would assume it is legit. Only thing I could see happening is they tell us it was an April fools joke, which would frustrate people to the point where they wouldn't buy the new version.

Youtube info:

Name:Adobe Photoshop
Channel Views:28,532
Total Upload Views:0
Age:20 <-- suspicious.
Joined:March 17, 2010 <-- suspicious.
Website:http://www.adobe.com/photoshop

But well made, if it's fake.

Adobe have shown off this sort of photo manipulation technology in the past. I've no reason to doubt it's authenticity.

Besides the person narrating, Bryan Hughes, has been at Adobe for years.

I call bullshit. I reckon it's an April Fools thing that's accidently been released (or found) a few days too early.

Photoshop, how I hate thee... When will someone finally get around to making a decent painting app with just the essentials and a far better interface? Layers, basic blur and sharpen filters, high pass, free transform, curves, levels, a decent brush engine. Reusable masks. A file format that only saves chunks that have changed since the last save. Freeform rulers as seen in Sketchbook pro. Not much else needed. I spend half my time with Photoshop just swearing at it.

Yeah, the desert and mountain/sky panorama set off my bullshit alarm.

I won't believe it until I can plug in my own photos.

I want to see a spoof video where someone content-aware fills a picture of a single house with huge whitespace around it into a full-blown, HD picture of the city, with monuments and all. This should already be on the internet, and I am looking for it right now...

Resynthesizer plugin for open source image editor GIMP has apparently been doing this for years. Check out http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-a
ware-fill-unbelievable for a comparison. I personally think Resynthesizer does a better job except for the sky where the tree used to be. I don't know if resynthesizer is as easy to use though.
-Karl

This is incredible, I've no idea what sort of ridiculous algorithms they've invented to accomplish this but having played with photoshop for years now I've no doubt this is legit.

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/03/caf_in_ps.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/10/video_new_from_adobe_labs_content-aware_fill.html

They've been showing this off for a while. If it's bullshit, it's Adobe's bullshit.

Also, I bet the programming isn't especially voluminous, but the algorithms are probably insanely advanced. The code itself would probably be highly recursive, so you wouldn't need a lot of lines.

Wow, CSI:NY ain't got anything on this. If it's reals.

Soo basically, you don't need any artistic ability anymore. Just point and click.

>> ^Unsung_Hero:

Soo basically, you don't need any artistic ability anymore. Just point and click.


I don't think any artistic ability has ever been required to clone brush an object off the sky or remove lens flares.

Well, OK, maybe when there were no computers...

wow if this is a scam i want in on it

I'd love to see the actual .psd for the last two pictures. There were enough artifacts in the park picture that I'd really question how well they held up at 100% resolution.

You've convinced me Adobe, I'll upgrade via PirateBay as soon as it's out.

I'm no Photoshop expert but this is absolutely incredible.

It's a hoax, guys

It's real. Image completion has been an active part of the computer vision and computer graphics communities for a decade now. I'm glad to see Adobe is finally implementing this. They have good researchers working for them so it was only a matter of time. Microsoft even had a version of this in their Digital Image Pro software. It would be nice if they attributed the ideas, but that's not as flashy I suppose.

I would say that what Adobe has cooked up here is quite well engineered, but not fundamentally different from the things that have been in the literature for 6 or 7 years. I would also guess that they've chosen their examples well, and you'll be disappointed when you try it in other situations.

Here's some of the examples of this from the literature:
1999: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/people/efros/research/EfrosLeung.html (scroll to the bottom, this is the one that started the texture / image completion craze in the vision / graphics communities)
2004: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=67276 (more sophisticated heuristics about how to propagate texture)
2007: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/scene-completion/ (searches the internet for similar scenes to use to patch up holes in images)

I was thinkin' the same thing too at first.

Tho, as our Swedishfriend pointed out, if GIMP developed the same thing beforehand.. it's not quite as impressive.

http://videosift.com/video/Gimp-Content-Aware-Fill-aka-Resynthesizer

>> ^NinjaInHeat:

This is incredible, I've no idea what sort of ridiculous algorithms they've invented to accomplish this but having played with photoshop for years now I've no doubt this is legit.

I think I just Content-Aware Filled my pants!

I like this Content-Aware Fill, or as I like to call it, Watermark Removal Tool.