Photoshop CS5's Content-Aware Fill's limitation

by Leonard Goh | 13 April 2010 4:51pm SGT

We've watched demonstration videos of Adobe's latest Photoshop CS5, and we got to admit that it's a revolutionary image-editing tool. New features include a mixer brush that can give photos a paint-like look, a refined selection tool and plenty of other functions that photographers will appreciate. But the two most noteworthy options are the Content-Aware Fill and Puppet Warp.

For Content-Aware Fill, users can select distracting elements and remove them, and Photoshop will automatically fill in the black space with relevant pixels from the surroundings. The demonstration video above looks pretty cool, doesn't it? We checked with Adobe regarding Content-Aware Fill's restrictions, and found out that it works best if the background is uncluttered. For complex scenes, the firm suggests that users remove the elements by components. For example, if you're removing a dog from a busy street scene, you should remove the head first, followed by the body, limbs and tail. This ensures the software can accurately fill in the blank spaces.

Puppet Warp is another interesting new feature for Photoshop CS5. This function allows users to fix points on a picture and then distort the rest without changing the proportion. It's difficult to explain with words, but the video above should to help illustrate.

Photoshop CS5 should be in Asia by end of this month. Pricing-wise, Adobe said the software will cost US$699, subject to individual country tax and duties.

Photoshop CS5's Content-Aware Fill's limitation

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