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Adobe Photoshop CS5: Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek

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Cited on HN 3 times, 2011–2017, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Referenced as the original demo that stunned people when object-removal and image-inpainting algorithms come up.

Adobe's sneak-peek demo of Content-Aware Fill ahead of Photoshop CS5, showing objects being removed and areas repaired seamlessly with the delete key.

“This was the video that blew everyone” (HN, 2017)

3 citations · Demos · partly dated

3 Hacker News comments

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@hmottestad May 2011 Cites it
on HN thread How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots
Here is how it's done in photoshop: [this video] (2:45) It seems someone decided to remove the banner from the video frame. Have a look at the left guys hat, there is a little "v" from where the banner was (in the top red oval). Edited: [link] Original: [link]
Demo of content-aware fill removing objects.
@mikeyouse May 2017 Cites it
on HN thread Google I/O 2017
Adobe calls it "Content Aware Fill" which is likely what you're thinking of. This was the video that blew everyone's mind, but its 7 years old at this point: [this video]
Original content-aware fill sneak peek.

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