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.

There is a new version of Photoshop on its way, so Creative Sweet TV has thrown its hat into the ring and created this fantastic infomercial all about the benefits of Content Aware Fill. Thank you content aware fill and thank you Photoshop. Dont forget to register for the CS5 launch event for APAC here http://cs5launch.adobe.com/ap/

Sometimes Photoshop just stuns us with something that is actually magic. The new content aware scale feature is just that… MAGIC. No more adding in dodgey backgrounds with the clone tool, or flipping the left side over to the right, or even worse having to get an entire image reshot just because its portrait instead of landscape. Photoshop CS4 rules so look out for heaps more to come. Shot in the new Creative Sweet studios in Melbourne Australia.