Photoshop CS5: The Content-Aware Workflow

By Dan Moughamian Back to

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This is the first of three articles on the significant changes in Photoshop CS5: Content-Aware Fill, Painting Techniques, and HDR.

It’s no secret that Adobe Photoshop provides photographers with many tools for accomplishing similar or related retouching tasks. Photoshop CS5 ships with two special Edit commands that work in new ways and achieve high quality results.

The new Content-Aware Fill and Content-Aware Heal provide an intelligent means of removing distracting elements in a scene, by predicting what is “behind” these selected elements and then filling the selection or brush stroke with new textures that blend with their surroundings (Fig. 1).

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Dan Moughamian
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Dan Moughamian is a fine art photographer and instructor, having more than 16 years experience with Adobe Photoshop. He is a veteran of Adobe's testing programs and a published author, contributing to the Photoshop CS4 Bible, as well as feature articles at Peachpit.com. Dan has also authored a series of in-depth Adobe training videos. His upcoming titles from Nonlinear Educating include: Image Retouching & Adjustment with Photoshop CS5 and Raw Foundations with ACR 6.

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