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Typically, you need hard edges around skin and clothing, and soft edges around hair and fuzzy clothes.

You could feather the selection to create a smooth transition around the selected area, but many subjects - especially people - aren’t uniformly hard around the edges. One of the big problems with selections in Photoshop has always been that a selection’s edge was uniform all the way around.

Because all sorts of effects and adjustments require good masks, mask creation is one of the most important operations in Photoshop. Next in line for “most useful” is a modification to Photoshop’s Refine Edge command. Not only is it easier, but the results are much faster.
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If you regularly remove elements from an image with the Rubber Stamp, Healing Brush, or Patch tools, you may be able to replace all of those features with Content Aware Fill. The results are every bit as good as I could do with the Rubber Stamp tool, but much easier to achieve. First, I select it with the Lasso, then I choose Edit > Fill (or hit Shift-F5) and tell the Fill dialog box to use Content Aware Fill. I can easily remove this sign using Content Aware Fill. Note: Click on any figure to see a larger, higher-resolution version of the image.įigure 1. The Content Aware Fill algorithm tries (and usually succeeds) at filling an area with “correct” texture, meaning it looks like the content in that particular area is supposed to look (Figure 1). Rather, it’s a new technology you can apply through the Spot Healing Brush or Photoshop’s well-worn Fill command. There’s no one “Content Aware Fill” tool. In fact, you may find that your retouching techniques change dramatically (read “get much easier”) thanks to Content Aware Fill. It’s a tool that will come in handy for for all Photoshop users. Photoshop’s CS5’s Content Aware Fill feature has received a lot of press, and with good reason. Note that this review does not address features that are only in the Extended version of Photoshop. It’s also part of five Creative Suite packages.

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The full version of Photoshop CS5 costs $699 the upgrade is $199. No matter how you use Photoshop, you’ll probably find something to love in CS5. But there are powerful new additions to Photoshop’s toolset, and enough improvements to make this a compelling upgrade. That’s good: Dramatic alterations in the everyday functions of a mission critical tool can really slow you down. The CS5 interface is largely the same, and the fundamentals of the program are unchanged. For a program this old mature, a major upgrade doesn’t usually bring huge changes. With the release of CS5, the twenty-year-old Photoshop has reached version 12. Pros: Content-Aware Fill, new Refine Edge, and Mini Bridge are stand-out features Puppet Warp will be great for many users a huge number of tweaks, improvements, and additions.Ĭons: Bridge still sluggish installer won’t migrate your old settings and preferences.
