Tag: SPOT HEALING

One of Photoshop CS5's most talked-about and exciting features is its new 'content-aware' algorithm. Either for spot healing or filling arbitrary areas, the content-aware tools provide a new and surprisingly-veracious replacement for the clone brush and other antiquated methods. The screencast is only a few minutes long, and even if you you haven't used Photoshop before, you will find the ...

John Nack at Adobe recently posted a demo video of a hot new project in the works from Adobe Labs: content-aware fill in Photoshop. Where the current spot-healing tool in Photoshop (up to CS4) replaces the selected area using information from one other part of the image, the new content-aware version uses a technology called PatchMatch to fill in the hole using info from multiple surrounding ...