Sometimes you think somethings are impossible and then it appears in Photoshop. There are a few things that have made their way into Photoshop over the years that have made me do a double take. I love those magic surprises. The first time I saw the Content Aware Scale Feature (introduced in Photoshop CS4) I had to check to see if it was April 1st, because I thought after many years of being a designer that “that” was impossible. Anamorphic-ally scaling an image but without distorting it! It actually wasn’t in Photoshop that I saw it. It was on Youtube.
Shai Avidan (who presented the video) is now a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe. I was blown away by this as were many other people and this lead to to the technology being developed to the create the now famous Content aware fill. See a great tutorial from Russell Preston Brown. There have also been some pretty funny spoof type videos made as a homage to this great technology. This one here, the Photobomber and my own, lame attempt at an infomercial.
But hold the Phone, there appears to be a new kid in town. We have heard of sharpening before, but have you heard of deconvolution sharpening? I had and it seemed liked science fiction to me, which lead me to play several practical jokes on unsuspecting audiences across Australia and New Zealand using a technique of slowly enlarging a smart object layer with the image size panel.
But all that silliness aside how many times have you been asked as a Photoshop Professional to enhance an image more than is possible? I think it comes from TV and movie clips as shown on ” Lets Enhance” Lets vector in on the clip below and look at section A6.
Thats awesome. But just recently at Adobe Max in LA A new technology was sneaked out called de-blurring. Presented by Jue Wang.
Again I was blown away, I think this time I learnt my lesson. Nothing is impossible with Photoshop and the future is very bright indeed with Photoshop. I look forward to more magic in the future.
