If software could be sexy, this would be it

[nathanm]

It worked really well on the first image, then surprisingly well on the second. With the panorama, though, it got some parts of it "right," but the upper left corner was an utter disaster area.

I could have really used content aware fill a couple of days ago when I was cleaning up an image for a web site I'm doing.

[patric]

And to think all the years I spent learning film photography in the 70's and 80's.

Yeah, I used to teach darkroom photography in the 80's.  Another lost skill set.
Dove headlong into something called Cibachrome.  Very hip at the time.

[sgrizzle]

Yeah, I used to teach darkroom photography in the 80's.  Another lost skill set.
Dove headlong into something called Cibachrome.  Very hip at the time.

Wait... They guy who is known as the constant campaigner for dimmer and lower lighting levels used to work in a DARKROOM..

NO WAY!

/sarcasm

[patric]

Wait... They guy who is known as the constant campaigner for dimmer and lower lighting levels used to work in a DARKROOM..

NO WAY!

/sarcasm

HAR!   I used to create with light.  So there, Pfffttt.   

...But funny you should draw the parallel. Darkroom design is all about making the most of the least light.
I was ahead of my own curve 
 

[sgrizzle]

HAR!   I used to create with light.  So there, Pfffttt.   

...But funny you should draw the parallel. Darkroom design is all about making the most of the least light.
I was ahead of my own curve 
 

I'm sure you could still go to Apertures and get your geek on.

[BKDotCom]

There's a GIMP plugin that pretty much does the same thing:
http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-aware-fill-unbelievable

[Gaspar]

There's a GIMP plugin that pretty much does the same thing:
http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-aware-fill-unbelievable

I use Gimp on one of my Linux boxes.  Didn't know there was a Window's version. 

Thanks

[Gaspar]

Wow!  That really works well in Gimp!

[Hoss]

Wow!  That really works well in Gimp!

Yes, I've been using Gimp for a while now on Windows.  Not a whole lot different than PS and most of the PS plugins work with it.

Edit:  I should rephrase that..not a whole lot different than the last version of PS I used (5).

[dbacks fan]

Yeah, I used to teach darkroom photography in the 80's.  Another lost skill set.
Dove headlong into something called Cibachrome.  Very hip at the time.

It's something that I have not done in a while, but I still have all of my negatives from way back when, I was a yearbook and newspaper photog at Nathan Hale from '79 to '81 and will soon be in a position that I can set up a black and white darkroom and print off pic's from then. It's funny, I have done digital and film and the people that I have taken pictures with using 35mm film love the warmth and feeling over the crispness of digital. It's exactly the same as listening to a vinyl alblum as opposed to a cd or a musician that uses a tube amp as opposed to a digital amp.

I just looked up Cibachrome, and found that it was a process using one of my favorite papers other than Agfa. I was in my darkroom one night and took a print that I had made on Kodak Polycontrast, turnend it over to make a negative on Agfa 310, processed it, dried it, and then flipped it again as a negative onto another Agfa 310 and made a print that was just black and white. There were no greys or transitions, it was black and white. There was definition/transition between the black and white, but it was something that the other photogs had never done.

[sgrizzle]

The gimp plugin shown started with the first photo almost finished. It only removed the tree, not the trash, poles or lens flare. Makes me wonder if it can only work on larger items.

[custosnox]

Okay, was playing around with cs5 and after about 20 minutes I took the top portion of this photo and made the lower portion