Tested out the new CS5 content aware tonight on these images from a shoot five years ago. Content aware is still basically a way to replace portions of an image seamlessly– similar to the pattern tool but with slightly different application and use.

I used it here to create a more square shaped image of each individual shot by creating a bigger canvas, then selecting that and letting content aware fill in the blank canvas space. It took a few tries and lots of cloning/pattern tool to clean it up, but it was a lot faster than just the clone/pattern tool. I bet this is one of those tools that will improve dramatically with time in Photoshop.

Oh– and there was a purpose to this test. My website portfolio uses a more square aspect ratio for portrait oriented shots than my camera shoots. Rather than crop it square and lose the top and bottom parts of the images, I added “content” to the sides. Like I said– a useful tool. In theory, you could quickly turn a vertical shot into a quite realistic landscape oriented shot.

Model Tiffany, shot in the desert outside Vegas in 2005.

Pete Springer Photographer, Portland, Oregon

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