Interesting possibilities in Photoshop CS5
I remember getting pretty excited the first time I saw the Seam Carving technology from a SIGGRAPH demonstration, which eventually made it’s way into Photoshop, The GIMP and Xara Xtreme. That seemed to happen quickly, and I’m certain because the code was made open to a certain extent. A custom app was built, a plugin for the Gimp was great. Xara and Photoshop integrated Seam carving really well. And it works. It’s actually one of my best new tools I can make use of probably once for every web project I do.
Now things are evolving even more with what may be upcoming features that will help with fixing and doctoring photos. I don’t find doctoring photos that enjoyable really. I love helping customers, but I wish most of this wasn’t necessary. That being the case, if you have to doctor a photo, it might as well be pretty easy to do.
Here is a video of Improved Seam Carving and PatchMatch, both of which were part of an Adobe/Princeton/University of Washington project. To my knowledge, nobody said explicitly this WILL be in Photoshop CS5. But it is shown operating in the Photoshop interface and take from it what you will. As an aside, I like this website I discovered. CS5.org. Despite it’s authoritative look, it appears not to be an Adobe site. Granted I could be wrong, but it’s showing Youtube Videos rather than using an Adobe player, and it’s showing a white paper using Scribd rather than an Acrobat-esque flash paper embedded PDF viewer. Still that doesn’t mean it’s not all great information.
Adobe does have a video from a few members of their user experience UX design team re-published on the CS5.org website. It features some discussion and examples of multi-touch and how they can leverage it for their graphics creation tools.
October 4, 2009 at 5:10 am | computers, design, graphics, media | No comment
