Re: Request for photoediting in CS5
^Pic taken at the base village of Harishchandragad, next to hotel Aishwarya, which trekkers will recognise, at Malsejh Ghat in Maharashtra about a year ago.
Am running the "White Rabbit" version, and it's a mixed bag, some features click, some don't. This is a demonstration of the "puppet warp" feature. Works well with some images, not with others.
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this is the basic image before the puppet warp
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this is the image after the puppet warp. Note the slightly more balanced positions of the limbs. Again, this feature works very differently from what they have shown in the demo videos, there is a lot more distortion happening than anyone would assume by looking at the videos. Some content aware filling done here as well, but this is basically a variation of the clone or pattern stamp tool, and not a groundbreaking implementation at that.
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This is the splash screen. Pretty interesting in itself, was a shock for someone used to the CS4 splash screen.
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Now, posting some screenshots of the process itself. Content aware fill is supposedly great for removing wires and the like from images, and is designed to make a long task simple. So I selected wires in an image, and used content aware fill to see how it works without too much tweaking, fine tuning, or basically, too much effort to get it right, just leaving the application to do it
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The results were not too great, you can see that there are still some artifacts left over, and the fill has used some of the pixels from the wires itself, the operation is not smooth
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sad image anyway, if anyone has an image with wires, post it here and we'll see what Photoshop CS5 can do.
Now, another example of the puppet wrap feature. This is the image before puppet wrap:
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Adding the nodes:
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Distorting the image as necessary... the transformation can best be described as something terribly wobbly. You never know when a head can get stretched in a strange manner. Notice how the edges of the image get ruined, despite putting in a quadrant to restrict the warping.
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This is the image post puppet wrap. Content aware fill used on the edges, not to great effect, but it did some good work.
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in short, the new bunch of features are not as magical an experience as they are made out to be
