A post from Seattle’s The Big Blog features a new Photoshop tool called “Content Aware”.
Photoshop’s soon-to-be-released “Content Aware” tool basically uses a computer algorithm to create content in a photograph to fill a blank area or cover up undesirable elements in the image. The process of removing and adding content was time consuming and sometimes obvious to a trained eye with previous versions of Photoshop. The coming tool is easy and seems almost impossible to recognize.
I’m torn between the issue. While, yes, it does seem like it will make photo editing so much easier…but on the other hand, should we even be calling it photo editing? It definitely looks impressive, but as the article states, photographers and journalists abide by a strict code of ethics that forbids any photo manipulation. This could potentially add a new life-changing dimension to photography in general. Nonetheless, I’ll definitely be interested in trying it out.
Check out the video preview and and also a parody video:
via The Big Blog
