PS CS5 Content Aware Healing
PS CS5 Content Aware Healing
I had to break down recently to upgrade to PS CS5 - and just went through a tutorial on the Content Aware Healing feature which at first look - seems like it could be a really powerful update to a familiar tool! This along with Content Aware Fill - makes CS5 worth the coins imo. No this is not a paid announcement - just some friendly chat from someone who has taken how many wires out of photographs? 100s? 1000's? Lynda.com's Jan Kabili has some good tutorials on the release.
Brandt: Strongly second that. Think I may have said that same thing somewhere on some forum . To me the content aware fill is worth the $ to upgrade. Just finished reading a book on CS5 and what's new. I'll be doing a blog on it in the relatively near future. There are some pretty cool new tools buried in the release that are an added bonus.
I am going to the link you suggested right now!
I am going to the link you suggested right now!
Andy
If it sounds too good to be true, its probably . . . .
If it sounds too good to be true, its probably . . . .
Lynda.com
Content aware fill is pretty darn great. I've been using Lynda.com for a number of years now for tutorials on a dozen or so different software apps. - they offer hundreds. Pretty great service and cost effective - some presenters aren't so good like for Premierie Pro but that is rare - but by and large all really good. And for PS - Deke McClelland is THE BEST imo. on Lynda. If you've never checked out Russell Brown - he offers free tutorials at link below...and his tutorials about complex masking are excellent...check out the one "Advanced Masking - Old Stuff That's New" all the way at bottom if you haven't already seen it.
http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html
http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html
Russell Brown CS5 Content Aware
I just saw Russell Brown has some CS5 content aware tutorials - he has some good "killer tips" on content aware spot healing
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That is the major draw for me to CS5 as well. I'm still running CS3 currently, and debating on not upgrading until I upgrade my PC. It's a 4yr old system, I've upgraded the memory and HDD myself. I can easily run a multi-layer project in CS3 while also playing in Lightroom2. My big concern is that I've heard from many that if you're not 64bit, with a 'big' powerful system, content aware fill is ruthlessly slow, and sometimes even fails. Any comments?
My current PC is still on XP, b/c there were a lot of driver issues between Win7 and my printer, so I'll leave it at XP.
My current PC is still on XP, b/c there were a lot of driver issues between Win7 and my printer, so I'll leave it at XP.
Gretchen
I run 4 Gb ram/32 bit PC...with PS CS5 - and there are not supposed to be any issues as PS CS5 is "32 bit compatible". That said, I have noticed that when using content aware fill...sometimes error message pops up saying memory too low - and won't complete task....then I'll change selection somewhat and it will complete. I don't know if this is just CS5 being "buggy"or not...I haven't used the tool enough yet. Will post when get more time in using it.
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That's fantastic!!! I'm using XP Home Media, and did install up to 4Gb of RAM, even though I know a 32 bit system can't use all of it. Sounds like there is hope yet, thank you Andy!Andy wrote:I am running 32 bit Windows XP Professional -- I am pretty sure I only have 2G of ram. Haven't had any problems with content aware or CS5.
Gretchen