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Use Photoshop CS5 "Content-Aware-Fill" to create Green-Screen Background Plates.

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Use Photoshop CS5 "Content-Aware-Fill" to create Green-Screen Background Plates.

Excellent demonstration of the new content-aware fill feature in Photoshop CS5. The possibilities are endless. Now we have access to millions of stock photos for use as green-screen composite background plates.

http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCo...9_prod_text&utm_campaign=ReleaseAnnouncements

All you have to do is find a great inexpensive image (High-Res) on iStockPhoto or Dreamstime, then use content-aware fill in Photoshop CS5 to remove any people and other unwanted objects and then you can composite your green screen material over the top of the background plate. You can even use the new Puppet Warp tool to add some motion to the background and give it realism.

I've been using Photoshop since version 1.0 (I have the floppy for serial number 227) and this is BY FAR the coolest, and most useful Photoshop feature in 20 years since the introduction of the rubber stamp tool.

-michael zaletel
 
michael zaletel said:
Excellent demonstration of the new content-aware fill feature in Photoshop CS5. The possibilities are endless. Now we have access to millions of stock photos for use as green-screen composite background plates.

http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCo...9_prod_text&utm_campaign=ReleaseAnnouncements

All you have to do is find a great inexpensive image (High-Res) on iStockPhoto or Dreamstime, then use content-aware fill in Photoshop CS5 to remove any people and other unwanted objects and then you can composite your green screen material over the top of the background plate. You can even use the new Puppet Warp tool to add some motion to the background and give it realism.

I've been using Photoshop since version 1.0 (I have the floppy for serial number 227) and this is BY FAR the coolest, and most useful Photoshop feature in 20 years since the introduction of the rubber stamp tool.

-michael zaletel
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Do you really have a floppy of of version 1.0? Ha ha, that's awesome! I wonder what the minimum system requirements were back then. LOL
 
Stacey Spears said:
I used the content aware fill to fix a dust blob. I built an action that would delete the blob, save, and then close the image. I pointed it at a folder of TIFFs and viola. It worked really well.
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Oh wow, was there a lot of movement with the dust? or was the shot stationary?
 
shashbugu said:
Oh wow, was there a lot of movement with the dust? or was the shot stationary?
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From what I can tell, it wouldn't matter if the dust moved around. Content aware fill can probably handle it. He makes a great point though about using Photoshop CS5 Content-Aware fill with actions and batch processing to fix video files converted to tifs.

Yeah, I do have the floppy. The serial number has a bunch of leading zeroes though like they thought the program would be a success. I think I bought it at Seybold Show in S.F. in 1990 or around there.

-michael
 
Oh wow, was there a lot of movement with the dust? or was the shot stationary?
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One shot was stationary. There were clouds moving through the dust blob and it worked like a charm. There was a pan across a lighthouse that I had to edit around. It did not work so well going through the lighthouse itself. Now this is where they could possible exand on the technology in a video scenario. They could use the temporal information to deal with occlusion.
 
shashbugu said:
Do you really have a floppy of of version 1.0? Ha ha, that's awesome! I wonder what the minimum system requirements were back then. LOL
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I have the original manuals:

• Macintosh SE, SE/30, II, IIx, IIci, IIcx with a minimum of 2 megabaytes of RAM
• System software 6.0.3
For Adobe PS 2.5:
• An Apple Macintosh II computer with a 68020 (or any later model) with a minimum 3 MB of RAM.
• System software 6.0.7
• 32-bit QuickDraw
Adobe recommends a Macintosh II with 68030 or 68040 processor, System 7 or higher and from 5 to 8 MB RAM.


For novelty, check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGc8OBp-Wh0&feature=player_embedded#!
 
I started with Photoshop 2 on a Mac IIcx for which I was lucky enough to have 20MB ram and a half-gig hard drive. I had so much fun with that setup!

Graeme
 
Graeme Nattress said:
I started with Photoshop 2 on a Mac IIcx for which I was lucky enough to have 20MB ram and a half-gig hard drive. I had so much fun with that setup!

Graeme
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I`m not to sure how long ago the Mac11cx was Graeme,but what do you reckon(wish) you might be running in 5 years time extrapolating Moore`s law?..sorry if i`m a bit off topic but i know you`re whizz Graeme and i had to ask!:-)
 
I got my Mac II cx given to me, and I think it was in 1994 (the year the power macs came out). The corollary to Moore's law though, is that applications expand their processing and memory requirements to keep up with Moore's law....

Graeme
 
Apologies Graeme,my question was poorely worded;i was amazed to be reminded in your post that 20mb ram and a half gig drive was once order of the day,so the thrust of my question was how big would your hard drive be in 5 years time,not to mention your ram!
 
I know I paid about $5,000 for a 1GB external SCSI drive back in around 1994 or 1995. It was so enormous and held so many files that we aptly named it GIGA DADDY. I just bought a 4TB G-Raid for under $500. That's 4,000 GIGA DADDY'S for 1/10th the price!

The thought of creating a batch action in Photoshop to content-aware-fill 900 frames of 4K TIF files never, ever crossed my mind as remotely possible back then. :)

-michael
 
MY Mum bought a PC back in `99 and she told me that the salesman said there was an option to double the ram to 128 mb, he said,however, it would be quite expensive and couldn`t really see the point..
 
When I first came to America from Africa the first computer I ever worked on, was my sponsor a college professor's SGI machine running Photoshop in 64bit. 16 years later its re-released in 64bit
 
Graeme Nattress said:
I got my Mac II cx given to me, and I think it was in 1994 (the year the power macs came out). The corollary to Moore's law though, is that applications expand their processing and memory requirements to keep up with Moore's law....

Graeme
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It's a little known fact that software is actually a gas. It expands to fill any available volume.

-sc
 
I love that one… :laugh:
 
kaypro

kaypro

Still have my first computer. A Kaypro 2 with Kaypro 4 drives! Oooh! No ram, no hard drive, no gui, just big floppys with programs on them like Wordstar! Monochrome screen, all in one. About the size of a MacPro tower but with a handle on it so you can carry it around. Also still have the daisy wheel printer that I bought at the same time. Don't know why I haven't gotten rid of it ...
 
This thread triggered some nostalgia ... first computer:

Model 1 TRS-80. 4K of memory. Data I/O .... a tape drive that never failed to throw up a CHKSUM error and make you start the load all over again.

That was awesome.
 
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