John Nack at Adobe labs demo, and as such it's not a promise that a technology’ll ship inside a particular version of Photoshop: ‘content-aware fill in Photoshop,’ where the current spot-healing tool in Photoshop (up to CS4) replaces the selected area using information from one other part of the image, the new content-aware version uses a technology called ‘PatchMatch’ (, A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing) to fill in the hole using info from multiple surrounding points. The upshot’s that you get a much more convincing automatic heal.

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