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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Healing brush

Finally Adobe is making the healing brush work the way it should, in Photoshop in CS5.
This is a dramatic improvement, virtually a revolution in the ease of photo retouching. I predict that once you get used to this, you can't imagine living without it.
Some of what he's demoing there actually seems so magical that I'm half-fearing it's an April-1 joke that got out a bit early.
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5 comments:

  1. Timo Lehtinen27 Mar 2010, 11:00:00

    Some of what he's demoing there actually seems so magical that I'm half-fearing it's an April-1 joke that got out a bit early.

    The real name of this technology is “image resynthesizer” (rather than whatever trademark word Adobe's lawyers have come up with). Also, it has been available for years in specialized tools such as GIMP's Resynthesizer plugin (YouTube demo).

    So, no need to worry about an April fools day prank. This is kind of old stuff.

    The only thing that's new is that Adobe has now copied the idea and plan to (maybe) introduce it in some future version of Photoshop. But come on, who cares about that overpriced, monolithic, home-calling, 1980s style app anymore?

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  2. Timo Lehtinen27 Mar 2010, 11:10:00

    Here's another user demo from 2008.

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  3. Miserere27 Mar 2010, 13:38:00

    This is an even more impressive demonstration of what the "aware" healing brush is able to do:

    Almost magic CS5 demo

    I really want CS5 now :-)

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  4. Philocalist30 Mar 2010, 23:32:00

    'I really want CS5 now :-)'

    Apparently they are doing a global launch on April 12th ... just got an invite! :-)

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  5. Eolake Stobblehouse30 Mar 2010, 23:36:00

    ... I've often been disappointed with how poorly the Healing Brush works. If the spot is close to an edge, it's useless!!
    But a step up so huge as this, I had not expected!

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