Photoshop’s CAF (content-aware fill) - unbelievable? Not quite.
John Nack posted a “sneak peek” of an upcoming Photoshop feature called Content-Aware Fill. There’s an impressive video as well.
Users are predictably drooling; some can’t even believe such a wonder is possible.
They can rest assured - it is possible and it has been around for years, e.g. in the GIMP plugin by Paul Harrison called Resynthesizer.
Here are some examples of what GIMP-resynthesize can do, on the same pictures used in the content-aware fill video:
