See Photoshop's Amazing Patch Match
A four-person team (Connelly Barnes and Adam Finkelstein of Princeton University and Eli Shechtman and Dan B. Goldman of Adobe Systems) have been working on technology that fills in parts of an image you edit out more intelligently than Photoshop CS4’s Spot Healing Brush and Edit/Fill commands. The result is a “new randomized algorithm for quickly finding approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches.”
Sound boring? Wait till you see it in action in a video on Adobe’s Facebook page. In the meantime, check out these before-and-after from the video:


This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on October 22, 2009
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