Archive for May 16th, 2010

Now you see it … now you don’t

Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Before: Two Spanish boys frolicking on a beach in Altea

Before: Two Spanish boys frolicking on a beach in Altea

After: The two boys removed in seconds using Content-Aware Fill

After: The two boys removed using Content-Aware Fill

Yesterday, I showed how Photoshop CS5’s new Content-Aware Fill can be applied using the Spot Healing brush. The second way of using the powerful feature is to use the Content-Aware option when applying the Fill command.

I took the photo of two local boys at the Spanish beach at Altea, just 10 km to the north of the famous beach haven of Benidorm on the Costa Blanca. I like the way these two boys added life to the beach scene. But just to test out the Content-Aware Fill, I decided to “remove” them from the photo.

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