3 bills for the upgrade from cs4... worth it?

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Cs5 running on a dual core 4 gig ram ... one thing is for sure, if you are on a old system Cs5 is going to lag.



I tried the content aware fill and I was amazed, this is what one click can do.

http://screencast.com/t/YzllY2UyNzU

Before



After ( just selecting around the people and one click on fill-content aware.

So... no more votes for "great clean up job" posts, I guess?

pfft.

sure it does a good job, and saves time... but it just cloned the boxed area next to it, still should have to do some cleanup to get rid of the clone effect.

You can see the exact foam from the left, even the water just above the wave looks cut and pasted in... its got a heavy line where the waves no longer meet 'fluidly'

sure clever bit of coding, but I for one will keep doing it oldskool, nothing can actually beat putting the hours into the work, tools to help you work towards a goal sure, instant magic, baahhh!

Nice tool. Great starting point. But you can do the same exact thing with what I showed above. Select an area next to it, copy and paste on top of the area you want. Done. That's as far as that filter/tool will take you.


Yet if you look closer, there's still quite a bit of cleanup work to be done. Getting rid of that obvious clone, and just to the right and above the wave,there is a whole area that is smudged to hell that needs work thanks to the all powerful content aware fill. Not to mention the hard line where the highlight and shadow areas of the wave no longer meet...

Most untrained people wont ever notice any of that though.

PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW!

Of course theres still going to be work to do. But as some have said, it's a good starting point. For those of us with clients who like to give ridiculous deadlines it can be a big time-saver. (e.g. "Hey, we need an ad done up by 2 o'clock..." "But it's noon already, and I don't have the copy, or the pictures you want me to use." "We'll get you the copy, you just call the magazine and figure out the dimensions and put it together with whatever pictures you think are best and send that to us.")

Now of course this gets us into the debate of, "But we get paid by the hour..." I'd rather spend an hour on a project, and get it done before the deadline and make a little money, than have to tell the client, "I'm sorry, but that will take too long."

Now, if you aren't on a deadline, and you have time to go about it the old way, then do it! I'm sure that's what I'll be doing aswel.

Even in the demo videos, the people demonstrating the tool said it was a starting point. Not that it's a one click, and then you're completely done.

yup not bad for just couple clicks instead of doing it with the clone and healing tool... takes most of the hard work out of the equation. I did do it a second time and it looked perfect, there was no obvious clone pieces and it even completed the wave...

It seems to be a smarter version of the PATCH tool.