Adobe Photoshop CC will soon offer content-aware cropping, the company has announced. The feature, as demonstrated in a video released today, will allow Photoshop users to automatically fill any white space around an adjusted photo with content that matches the original image. The tool can be used to add content (to change the aspect ratio, for example), or to fill in gaps that result from rotating or repositioning the image.
Content-aware cropping has been a frequently requested feature, says Adobe. The company will include the new cropping tool ‘as part of an upcoming major release,’ though it doesn't specify whether it will be the next major update or a later one.
I can think of only 2 or 3 really useful features introduced by the Subscription PShop since CS6. So much for the promise of not being limited by the update cycle of the standard purchase model - just total BS.
I have not subscribed and just use PShop CS 6 and based on the announcements here, I don't think I'm missing much based on "my use" of PS, your experience may differ.
The sharpening feature (useful mostly for movement blur), is now available in PS Elements (the cost of a plugin when on sale) a feature which I found far less useful than I hoped. I expect Content Aware Cropping to be available on PS Elements soon, so if you really want it, that's one way you may be able to get it without subscription to PS.
It looks like a great feature but I could see the transition in the stone where the content aware started its work. View it full screen in HD and you will see it. But hey, it still makes the job easier.
Currently I do it with filling each corner separately using content-aware fill (after rotation). The final result is function of size of area and content of neighboring sections, which is hit-miss most of often. I hope this new feature adds more than just convenience (i.e. quality of 'fill')
It will be interesting to see how well this work. Content aware fill works well on i) a very isolated bit of an image that is ii) on a fairly even background. Otherwise, you can end up with a bit of a layer related puzzle (of the kind I find I enjoy). I can see content aware crop providing some interesting puzzles.
I must say the content aware tool in PS CC is very good. It works better than expected most of the time and saves a lot of time or at least it helps with removing unwanted parts of an image. Even complex tattoos or imperfections from skin and such. I wish it worked on a layer though.
With a few more clicks, this was already possible when PS first came out with the Content Aware feature. As impressive as that feature is, this add on is underwhelming to say the least.
Errm this feature has been there for a long time now, ever since Content Aware Fill made its debut. You do your crop/rotate/straighten, select the transparent areas, feather 5-6 pixels and hit Content Aware Fill. BTW Content Aware Fill works far better on a flattened layer.
I also use Photoshop and Affinity Photo... I have the photography subscription; however, I sense that as Affinity ads new features it will be more convenient, pay once and you're all set. As far as plugins, depends on your style of work...
Look carefully at the rocks and edge of the stream lower left at 1:24, a,few of the rocks have been duplicated, as well as some of the edge of the stream. Thats what a single convenient click nets you. This is what I dislike about content aware used without care. It has its place, and can be useful....but not a fix all. I can go in with the clone tool and clone out some of the duplicated rocks, but then that defeats the purpose doesn't it. A combination of various tools which may include the content aware crop, will do the job better
Affinity Photo ( which I own ) is a fantastic application but they should open this app to the same array of 3rd party plugins like Photoshop does ... then we do not have to read this kind of news since Affinity Photo will take the post image processing over, hands down ...
For small fills, the Liquify filter does an equally great job with some kind of content aware stretching. The Content Aware Scale function is another way to go.
I think Affinity is a very worthy competitor, but the parent comment misses that Photoshop also already had this feature in its panorama stitching mode.
Now Photoshop has it in both pano stitching and normal image mode, while Affinity only has it in pano stitching mode.
You mean: Affinity has it only in the stiching tool yet! Development of Affinity photo is faster then any Adobe Photoshop did. I will probably use both but really useful new features are scarce in Photoshop CC. If this is the only major feature in the new upgrade then you know enough, don't you.
Too little too late. No amount of patchwork by Adobe is going to convince all those ripped off through the years to not seek out perfectly good alternatives to their market bullying.
PS + LR would have cost me circa £700, an amount I could not justify spending in one go on software. Now it costs me £7 per month. Now its true that after 8 and a bit years I will, in total, be spending more than £700. But of course had I been buying the standalone versions I would undoubtedly have bought many upgrades by then. If that's bullying then pull down my trousers, bend me over and I'll take it like a man.
It's amazing to me that people will part with hundreds or thousands of dollars for a camera body that might only last a few years before it is obsolete yet complain about spending money for software they likely use more than the camera.
I expect this will work/not work similarly to the other 'content (somewhat) aware' tools – perfectly sometimes (with images that you could easily fix yourself), and just a bizarre disaster at other times, so you still have to fix it yourself. Not too impressed. ;-)
I what to hear Adobe is working on correcting the "n" number bugs they have in there programs. I what them to say they've optimized their software so now we can faster edit still or motion images! I'm not interested in collecting new features which don't properly work or I already can have in 3 operations instead of one!
I hope it works better than the content aware fills on the LR panorama tool. (The pano tool works fine - just that the edges seem to get filled randomly!)
I think I goofed - sorry if I misled anyone. I was thinking of ICE where the edges are not always filled with content aware. (I had been comparing the two panorama techniques - LR doesn't have CA.) Apologies!
ha hal...everyone wants their stuff fixed with a click. Learn to use Photoshop and do it properly, a few extra minutes, old school with the right tools for different applications. Much more rewarding and efficient!
Everyone wants software to fix up their poor photographic skills. Learn to use a camera and do it properly, a few extra seconds, levelling the horizon and getting the composition you really need. Much more rewarding and efficient!
subscription means more features for the social media crowd. lower the price... but attract a lot more people with easy to use features... that is what adobe is doing.
adobe has swallowed all professionals already. now they go after the billions of clueless people who want to edit their images easily.
for longtime photoshop users this means: less usefull features will be introduced.
because the new features will be easier to use but quality wise offer worse results.
look at all that mobile crap and the social media features... it´s only for people who would not have touched photoshop 3 years ago.
or the new LR import dialog made for imbecils who don´t know what a folder is. no professional needs or wants that!!
hi i know i can't buy photoshop anymore i pay the subscription since cc 2013 what i wanted to say ,when will be available soon -> update for 2015 or we need to wait months -> new version 2016 thanks
hi i have lightroom v6 cc last built windows 10 pro ,but can't find this feature in the crop tool may i know were can i find it? i have this option constrain to image , but it's different from "content-aware cropping" , at least what i have watched in the video above thanks
This is a different feature and Lightroom doesn't have it. The feature Lightroom has is not in Photoshop (though it is in Camera Raw). Now, when can we have both features in all those programs?
The waterfall example in the video shows how well it doesn't work. The stream in the foreground gets a new bank in the wrong place. This kind of thing could work better if it had some tools to inform it what to do in the white areas. If they release it without some advanced helper tools, it will be useless.
To be honest this is the type of feature that will never work for most of the images. It works for simple stuff - like the one with the sand, and probably it will be useful to some people. But in most cases you just have to clone stuff manually, or stretch the corners a bit, or whatever we always did in this scenario.
actually it works well for the majority of edits as long as your re-alignment isn't too severe.
you can do this now with content aware cut and it works 90% of the time, so that's 90% of the time that you don't have to manually clone or massage the image any more than a simple mouse click.
yes, exactly.... if the content aware cut works for you 90%, than this will work pretty much the same.
But it depends on what you need, for example take the second picture in the example, down center-right side, if you look closely there is a rock sequence that repeats itself, and towards left you can see pretty clearly the transition with the added stuff. That pretty much sums up my experience with 90% of the uses of any content aware fill in PS: It's ok if you don't look to close, but it's not great.
Back to the days of PS 2.5 when we considered great innovation the adding of a couple filters... Useful for an easy touch, but serious guys would use it as a starting point because in most cases the result will shout that's fake.
I have to say that the one thing that always jumps out to me, possibly because it was one of my biggest early misses. Horizon failures. I appreciate a new composition and unique image as much as the rest but so many great images that are totally distracted by a simple level. Okay rant over, carry on.
What a great feature. I have been resorting to duplicate layers and moving the areas adjacent to the edge of the photo out to cover the white areas for some time now. The results were not always perfect and took further fiddling to make the move look right and the overlap blended. This is a welcome change by Adobe, for a change. Some of their 'improvements' have been rather silly in the past. This one is really useful and I look forward to its incorporation.
Could you not, today, simply select the white areas, magic wand will do, increase the selection by 3-4 pixels to give "context aware fill" more data to deal with, and choose Edit | Fill, check context aware and go? I'd suspect that this is how Adobe plan to implement the feature anyway.
Frank and Kodachrome 200, The new tool allows you to do it in one step. But Frank is correct and his method works. But it is necessary to go over the overlap seams with a clone stamp or do a layer and move adjacent patches to blend in over the seam. It works well, but hopefully the new tool will fill without seams that need to be repaired.
Nobby 2016, What are you doing wrong? I use content aware and like the feature. Content aware is an excellent tool, but as it stands it does require followup work to blend in the "seams". Possible, the new tool will do a better job of blending. There is no point in being critical until it is released, right?
Is this the level of innovation Adobe thinks is acceptable to CC users?
It saves to click 4 corners with the mask tool and then use content-aware fill which was inroduced with CS5, I believe. Actually, it just makes a script a built-in feature.
Where is the real innovation? A new tool like content-aware fill as such?
I wouldn't. But I don't see noteworthy innovations brought to PS since a couple of releases now. Instead, I see "new features" which would normally go as actions.
The last innovative feature brought to PS was content-aware fill introduced in CS5. It is based on the PatchMatch algorithm (2009), with contributions from Princeton University, University of Washington and Adobe. 3 of 4 authors are now with Adobe.
I am sure there is enough imaging research going on. It is just Adobe isn't investing anymore in the core strengths of its product. Rather, they add bells and whistles like upload to the cloud etc.
This might be useful for Photoshop Elements users, and eventually Corel PSP X6, but for users of the big dog? I have a hard time people who care about the integrity of their photos would find a lot of use for this.
I've done this manually every now and then. For example after I've straightened street snaps and found that something I wanted to keep ended up clipped off the edge. If it works well it could be a time saver.
Glen Barrington said: "...I have a hard time (sic.) (believing) (?) people who care about the integrity of their photos would find a lot of use for this...." ************************** Glen, How do you identify integrity? All great images have been the product of post processing with the possible exception of the legendary street shooters like Cartier-Bresson and Wegee. In order to save an otherwise fine image, there is nothing wrong with a feature like this, unless you want to return to the scene and reshoot it. That , for most photographers, is impractical and sometimes impossible.
The examples appear to show that the content aware fill is just creating the content by cloning the remaining area (watch the rocky beach foreground) - i.e. copy/paste.
Many of us stuck in the mud CS6 users are counting the money we have saved by not paying a subscription for features that any accomplished photoshop user should be able to easily replicate on CS6.
I think most "stuck in the mud" with CS6 could pay the monthly fee if they wanted. Many of us choose not to. Speaking for myself, there's nothing in CC that I view as a "must have" or even as something that makes me feel compelled to become a subscriber.
First, some of us grew up in the days of film and actually learned to frame a shot properly.
Second, CS6 performs every function necessary for my work and I intend to use it until it doesn't. That is how you justify an investment in any product.
Unless you can write off the lease as a business expense there's no advantage to the upgrade.
It was my first attempt at trolling! I'm still on CS5 and use it every day for work without wanting for these great worth the subscription features. I guess the day that my 17inch non-retina MacBook pro gives up is the day I'll have to move CC for retina support. Until then though I'll have a couple of beers on Adobe a month!
Probably never. None of the edits in Lightroom transform the actual image. Not even the Spot Removal tool. Maybe in a far future when CPUs are much much more powerful. Until then: this is the realm of Photoshop (or another editor that transforms pixels in the actual image-file)
i don´t want to imagine how much that would slow down "lightsnail" even more.
i have a 6 core 5820k with 32GB ram and catalog and image files on a fast SSD... and i often hate using LR because it is so slow compared to other software.
There's nothing like viewing your holiday snaps and knowing that sizeable chunks of those memorable views have been completely invented by software :-)
Gary, you've got that right. Look at shots people have from the 70's, and the horrible quality of instamatic cameras in the 80's. Newer technology and Photoshop have done consumer photographers a big favor I say.
First I keep my horizons rasonably straight, and use the warp tool to straighten it up if I need to on occasion, without losing any of the image that would otherwise be sacrificed using the crop tool. The warp tool is excellent for many many corrections, straightening up buildings, fixing leaning trees etc.i
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