Content Aware Anhinga

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Sony A850~Sony 70-400G@400mm~ISO 3200~1/320 sec~F6.3~manual exposure~HH~overcast~1-14-2011~Houston, Texas~CS5/Redfield Fractalius

Fractalius treated image with white background. Content aware fill applied to white background. Thats it. comments and critique welcomed. regards~Bill

[Christopher Miller]

Very creative, Bill! I love the pose and the BG effect is really unique. I especially like the repeating eyes. Nice work!

[denise ippolito]

Bill, I like this creative image. It's different and I like the way you are thinking OOTB. I like the random look.

[Kerry Perkins]

Bill, something very different from you! I like it. I like the way my eye gets pulled around in the image but keeps coming back to that central eye. Good OOTB thinking.

[Chris Korman]

Interesting content aware fill. For some reason it reminds me of the prow of a Viking ship.

[Ken Childs]

Hey Bill, this is very creative and kind of scary!

It looks like you're having fun with content aware. I guess I'm going to have to download the CS5 trial or maybe break out the old liquid resize program.

[WIlliam Maroldo]

Thank you Christopher, Denise, Kerry, Chris, Ken!
Ken; I think the content aware fill is worth the price of upgrade, not because it can be fun, but simply because it is so darn useful, and time saving, in removing unwanted elements from images that required the clone-stamp tool previously. I am for anything that shortens PP time. Sure, you'll still need the clone stamp tool, but not nearly as much.
ACR 6, as far as I know, requires CS5. Noise reduction is vastly improved over previous version IMO, and although you'll still need to use PS (and generally another NR plugin) to selectively remove noise, it does a great job in images that have uniform noise. For some reason NR with the RAW file works especially well. NR (once in photoshop) seems to be better done with Topaz Denoise, Noise Ninja, etc.
regards~Bill

[Ken Childs]

Ken; I think the content aware fill is worth the price of upgrade, not because it can be fun, but simply because it is so darn useful, and time saving, in removing unwanted elements from images that required the clone-stamp tool previously. I am for anything that shortens PP time. Sure, you'll still need the clone stamp tool, but not nearly as much. ACR 6, as far as I know, requires CS5. Noise reduction is vastly improved over previous version IMO, and although you'll still need to use PS (and generally another NR plugin) to selectively remove noise, it does a great job in images that have uniform noise. For some reason NR with the RAW file works especially well. NR (once in photoshop) seems to be better done with Topaz Denoise, Noise Ninja, etc.
regards~Bill

Thanks for the info. I'll definitely give CS5 a look.