For Christmas, my kids got me Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended ... a photoprocessing software package. While there are tons of really neat features, the one that first caught my eye was one called "Content Aware Fill." Sounds wierd, but basically you get a picture that has a flaw in it. Maybe it's a landscape where some silly telephone pole got in the way of the mountain in the background ... or, you create a panarama of several photos and it leaves some blank border areas where the pictures didn't quite align.

With CS5, you highlight the blank area or the obstructing object; expand the area by a few pixels (say 10), and then, select the Content Aware Fill option from a drop down menu. Voila' ... CS5 creates an appropriate "fill" for the area selected and you end up with a picture that is complete. A scene with no telephone pole or a landscape where the blank border is now sky or scene.

I won't mislead you. There are things it just can't do. For example part of a person is near the edge you want to "fill." It has no way of creating the missing part to a person ... or how to take the pixels of a person near the edge and create background that would blend with everything else.

Anyway, look at the sample. I think it's amazing.

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Here's a sample I call, "A Person Got in the Way". CS5 fixes it.

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Didn't we have a thread recently about the camera never lying?

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It was more an argument over the ease at which photo manipulation has become vs. the authenticity of the older photos because 35mm film requires a dark room.

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That is cool as hell. I could edit out half my ass

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Why?

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If you were to do so, you'd have to edit out all of our hearts here at Pixies. We love your ass just the way it is.

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