Testing Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5

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.

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The before picture you can see above, the after just below.

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