CONTENT AWARE.
August 5, 2010
I know I'm a few months late on this, but I was only just made aware (excuse the pun) of the Content Aware fill tool in Photoshop CS5 a couple of days ago during a late night design session with our multi-talented design intern James Lowe. Have a look above... it hurts my brain thinking of the algorithms used to to perform a function like this. Since then, I've been having this same conversation with many different friends in the creative/visual realm - is technology like this heading down a path that will kill the graphic designer's role in the not-so-near future? I understand that the Adobe CS suite is supposed to be an industry tool, but with the proliferation of the application suite amongst the mainstream is this destined for the same fate as digital "pro-sumer" SLRs and the professional photography (and maybe the video/film production) industry, and dare I say it; Serato for DJs?
I guess what I'm asking is will this feature, that was designed to make an existing professional's life easier end up devaluing their craft instead? Is that the point of it, or is it a bad by-product?
Perhaps this is why I prefer writing at times as my outlet. I'll be damned if they can write an algorithm that can pull a well-written paragraph out of thin air. Maybe by Adobe CS-X...
Curious, Ivy, on her first day of using any Photoshop or Adobe CS program, managed to put together this 'spot the difference' picture in about 10 minutes using the Content Aware fill tool in PS CS5.
Food for thought?
ps - can you spot the seven differences?
Eugene and I figured it out. It took us our compared brain power and at least half the day.
Here it is:
-ketchup pool is smaller with an added fry.
-extra piece of fish on the bottom right.
-missing piece of fish in the middle.
-napkin.
-fry missing in the big grease pool.
-green thing missing at the top.
-blue line under "the longest" on the cup.
done.