I downloaded the trial version of CS5 today and of course the first thing I wanted to see is how well does it really handle the hyped content aware fill. Below are my results.
Note that sometimes I had to use the content aware fill a couple of times to fix little mistakes previous fills had done. But overall it’s a very powerfull tool. The results are not as perfect as their promotional video but jaw-dropping nonetheless.
Test 1 – removing me and my snowboard from a cellphone picture. So there’s dirt and heavy jpg compression at the start.
The before picture you can see above, the after just below.
Test 2 – a little harder this time. Removing some chess pieces from a cement chessboard, also removing their shadows. This one took a couple of fills to fix as you can see in the last image the first fill messed up the squares a bit.
The picture above is the basic image I used. This time it’s from a DSLR camera so the quality was much better. A lot less dirt. The final result below, and one result somewhere in the middle of fills after that.
