


No, seriously: If an errant dog is marring your otherwise pristine capture of a green field, just select the dog, choose the option (it can be as easy as hitting the Delete key), and the dog disappears-but the field remains. Content-Aware Fill is that idea's logical extension, letting you excise certain elements while preserving the image's background. Sound familiar? It should- Photoshop CS4 ($700 - $1,000 street, ) added Content-Aware Scaling, so you could resize images to reduce dead space, but preserve the content you cared about. The most eye-popping of the changes here is Content-Aware Fill. Photoshop CS5 may not be a must-have revision for every user, but it's an outstanding, easy-to-use, and-yes-magical release that shows Adobe isn't yet done changing the game. The newest, Photoshop CS5 ($699 to $999 list, $199–$899 list for upgrades), implements features that aid in selection, painting, and high dynamic range (HDR) photography, as well as a new capability that's as close to digital prestidigitation as we've yet seen. Clarke postulated that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," and every new release of Adobe's industry-standard bitmap image-editor, Photoshop, comes closer to proving that true.
