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Adobe Photoshop CS5: Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek

5.2M views · Mar 23, 2010 · 5:07 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2011–2017

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: Referenced as the original demo that stunned people when object-removal and image-inpainting algorithms come up.

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

What Hacker News said 3

Cites ithmottestadMay 2011

“It seems someone decided to remove the banner from the video frame.”

Demo of content-aware fill removing objects.

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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

in “How a baseball image got photoshopped by robots” · view on HN
Cites itniels_bomAug 2011

“reminds me of the Photoshop new feature”

Content-aware fill demo for removing objects.

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The "remove an object" image transformation reminds me of the Photoshop new feature "content-aware fill" featured here: this video

in “Algorithms to enhance or transform images” · view on HN
Cites itmikeyouseMay 2017

“This was the video that blew everyone”

Original content-aware fill sneak peek.

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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