Photoshop Makes Something out of Nothing

Link via NYTimes.com

The new tool is called content aware fill. What it does is to allow you to remove an unwanted element from a photo and to automatically fill the spot with a background that matches the rest of the photo.

The surprise, though, is that the program is not just capable of filling in removed portions of a picture, it can create a pattern where there is none. “We didn’t know it could be used to fill a missing area,” said Mr. Hughes. But he found out when he applied it to a panoramic photo stitched together from a series of photos below.