On 11/09/2018 05:18, Tony Cooper wrote:
This is intended as just a question, and not a position taken on
either side.

Adobe has provided a short video on the later-to-be released
improvements on Content Aware Fill in Photoshop.

It's available to watch at:
https://petapixel.com/2018/09/10/pho...eid=b307a66a15

or http://tinyurl.com/ybv32cks

The question is "Do improvements like this take away the skill aspect
and enjoyment of Photoshop for you?"

In other words, is it going to less rewarding to you to improve your
skills in using Photoshop if the improvements mean no skill, or
considerably less skill, is required to do what now takes skill?

Oh, the final product will be done faster and better with the
improvements, but the challenge of learning how to use the present
available tools is lessened.

What's more important to you? The final result, or the accomplishment
of having to hone your skills to get to that final result?

I've rarely seen post-processing (beyond a straighten, crop and perhaps
curves tweak) improve an image. Duck's moon image was an interesting
exception. Having said that, I can image that there could be situations
where content-aware-fill could be useful.

I'm not one filling Adobe's overflowing coffers, though.

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Cheers,
David
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