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Title: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: sgrizzle on March 25, 2010, 09:51:32 AM
Watch the whole thing, it goes from pretty impressive to completely insane.




From article:
http://pixelatedgeek.com/2010/03/photoshops-content-aware-feature-will-blow-your-mind/
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: Townsend on March 25, 2010, 10:11:18 AM
That's sweet
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: Conan71 on March 25, 2010, 10:24:19 AM
Holy shi'ite, that's cool!
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: sgrizzle on March 25, 2010, 10:25:52 AM
They should call it the David Copperfield filter because who else would make a road disappear?
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: Conan71 on March 25, 2010, 10:42:13 AM
Quote from: sgrizzle on March 25, 2010, 10:25:52 AM
They should call it the David Copperfield filter because who else would make a road disappear?

Photoshop has come a long way in the last 20 years.
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: AngieB on March 25, 2010, 10:46:53 AM
I remember working in Photoshop before there was such thing as Layers. Can't wait for CS5!!
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: dbacks fan on March 25, 2010, 11:26:22 AM
And to think all the years I spent learning film photography in the 70's and 80's.
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: TheArtist on March 25, 2010, 12:57:29 PM
Holy crap, me wants "content aware fill".  :P
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: custosnox on March 25, 2010, 01:08:48 PM
the film was photoshopped!!! I could tell by the pixels!!!!  sorry, couldn't resist
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: dbacks fan on March 25, 2010, 01:28:14 PM
Quote from: custosnox on March 25, 2010, 01:08:48 PM
the film was photoshopped!!! I could tell by the pixels!!!!  sorry, couldn't resist


:D ;D :D ;D
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: Gaspar on March 25, 2010, 01:51:34 PM
I want it!.. 
I've been using PhotoShop since the "Space Monkey" days.

Anyone recognize that?
Hint:  Not the easter egg.

Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: sgrizzle on March 25, 2010, 02:05:44 PM
Quote from: Gaspar on March 25, 2010, 01:51:34 PM
I want it!.. 
I've been using PhotoShop since the "Space Monkey" days.

Anyone recognize that?
Hint:  Not the easter egg.



I think my first copy was either version 2 or 3.

And not with a CS in front of it.
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: AngieB on March 25, 2010, 02:59:58 PM
Quote from: Gaspar on March 25, 2010, 01:51:34 PM
I want it!.. 
I've been using PhotoShop since the "Space Monkey" days.

Anyone recognize that?
Hint:  Not the easter egg.



I don't know about any Space Monkey but I do remember the alien that would delete things for you in Quark. He would march out and zap stuff.
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: Conan71 on March 25, 2010, 03:08:45 PM
I used to work at a certain alternative publication when it first started up. I was always envious of the great programs available only for Mac at the time like Photoshop, Quark, Pagemaker, Corel, etc.  I thought I'd gone to Heaven when Quark finally came out with a Windows version. 

I've done some graphics stuff in the past, but that was 16 years ago for a small and specialized client base and I've been out of that loop for a looong time.  That all left me behind many moons ago.
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: Gaspar on March 25, 2010, 03:45:00 PM
Before it was called Photoshop, the Beta name was "Space Monkey." 
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: nathanm on March 26, 2010, 12:17:13 PM
It worked really well on the first image, then surprisingly well on the second. With the panorama, though, it got some parts of it "right," but the upper left corner was an utter disaster area.

I could have really used content aware fill a couple of days ago when I was cleaning up an image for a web site I'm doing.
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: patric on March 26, 2010, 12:44:56 PM
Quote from: dbacks fan on March 25, 2010, 11:26:22 AM
And to think all the years I spent learning film photography in the 70's and 80's.

Yeah, I used to teach darkroom photography in the 80's.  Another lost skill set.
Dove headlong into something called Cibachrome.  Very hip at the time.
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: sgrizzle on March 26, 2010, 12:48:30 PM
Quote from: patric on March 26, 2010, 12:44:56 PM
Yeah, I used to teach darkroom photography in the 80's.  Another lost skill set.
Dove headlong into something called Cibachrome.  Very hip at the time.

Wait... They guy who is known as the constant campaigner for dimmer and lower lighting levels used to work in a DARKROOM..

NO WAY!

/sarcasm
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: patric on March 26, 2010, 12:53:25 PM
Quote from: sgrizzle on March 26, 2010, 12:48:30 PM
Wait... They guy who is known as the constant campaigner for dimmer and lower lighting levels used to work in a DARKROOM..

NO WAY!

/sarcasm

HAR!   I used to create with light.  So there, Pfffttt.   :P

...But funny you should draw the parallel. Darkroom design is all about making the most of the least light.
I was ahead of my own curve  ;)
 
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: sgrizzle on March 26, 2010, 12:58:23 PM
Quote from: patric on March 26, 2010, 12:53:25 PM
HAR!   I used to create with light.  So there, Pfffttt.   :P

...But funny you should draw the parallel. Darkroom design is all about making the most of the least light.
I was ahead of my own curve  ;)
 

I'm sure you could still go to Apertures and get your geek on.
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: BKDotCom on March 26, 2010, 04:16:20 PM
There's a GIMP plugin that pretty much does the same thing:
http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-aware-fill-unbelievable
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: Gaspar on March 26, 2010, 04:21:36 PM
Quote from: BKDotCom on March 26, 2010, 04:16:20 PM
There's a GIMP plugin that pretty much does the same thing:
http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-aware-fill-unbelievable

I use Gimp on one of my Linux boxes.  Didn't know there was a Window's version. 

Thanks
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: Gaspar on March 26, 2010, 04:41:33 PM
Wow!  That really works well in Gimp!
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: Hoss on March 26, 2010, 06:12:11 PM
Quote from: Gaspar on March 26, 2010, 04:41:33 PM
Wow!  That really works well in Gimp!

Yes, I've been using Gimp for a while now on Windows.  Not a whole lot different than PS and most of the PS plugins work with it.

Edit:  I should rephrase that..not a whole lot different than the last version of PS I used (5).
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: dbacks fan on March 26, 2010, 10:41:03 PM
Quote from: patric on March 26, 2010, 12:44:56 PM
Yeah, I used to teach darkroom photography in the 80's.  Another lost skill set.
Dove headlong into something called Cibachrome.  Very hip at the time.

It's something that I have not done in a while, but I still have all of my negatives from way back when, I was a yearbook and newspaper photog at Nathan Hale from '79 to '81 and will soon be in a position that I can set up a black and white darkroom and print off pic's from then. It's funny, I have done digital and film and the people that I have taken pictures with using 35mm film love the warmth and feeling over the crispness of digital. It's exactly the same as listening to a vinyl alblum as opposed to a cd or a musician that uses a tube amp as opposed to a digital amp.

I just looked up Cibachrome, and found that it was a process using one of my favorite papers other than Agfa. I was in my darkroom one night and took a print that I had made on Kodak Polycontrast, turnend it over to make a negative on Agfa 310, processed it, dried it, and then flipped it again as a negative onto another Agfa 310 and made a print that was just black and white. There were no greys or transitions, it was black and white. There was definition/transition between the black and white, but it was something that the other photogs had never done.
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: sgrizzle on March 26, 2010, 10:46:56 PM
The gimp plugin shown started with the first photo almost finished. It only removed the tree, not the trash, poles or lens flare. Makes me wonder if it can only work on larger items.
Title: Re: If software could be sexy, this would be it
Post by: custosnox on August 01, 2010, 09:32:23 PM
Okay, was playing around with cs5 and after about 20 minutes I took the top portion of this photo and made the lower portion

(http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/custosnox/reventon_2008.jpg)