Content aware crop? What???????

[ronlane]

I just watched this video from Adobe Photoshop. Wow, this is going to be really cool.

 

[JustBen]

I am not really sure what i think of that. If one just pays a little bit attention to the horizon it's not necessary. I could see some use for it in Lightroom, but in Photoshop? Yes Photoshop is used for photo editing, but i don't see that as it's primary purpose.

 

[fmshoemaker]

I am not really sure what i think of that. If one just pays a little bit attention to the horizon it's not necessary. I could see some use for it in Lightroom, but in Photoshop? Yes Photoshop is used for photo editing, but i don't see that as it's primary purpose.

One of the first habits i had was leveling.

 

[Alexr25]

You can do the same thing now manually in Photoshop by doing the rotate & crop then selecting the blank areas and applying a fill with the content-aware option selected.

 

[JustBen]

You can do the same thing now manually in Photoshop by doing the rotate & crop then selecting the blank areas and applying a fill with the content-aware option selected.

Yep, but i guess that is too much clicking and you cannot advertise it as something new. So what they did was basically to create a photoshop action and called it a new feature

 

[waday]

This seems very neat. Anything that can make workflow more efficient is a good thing.

 

[Peeb]

While a good photo SHOULD already be level, this is just one of a long list of things that can go wrong in the fog of war- so any post processing tool to help seems like a fine idea to me.

 

[dennybeall]

Very slick tool. Content aware fill is fine for small or narrow slices that need to be filled but when you go for a wider area this works better for me.

 

[Alexr25]

Very slick tool. Content aware fill is fine for small or narrow slices that need to be filled but when you go for a wider area this works better for me.

Have you actually tried content-aware crop?
I just installed Photoshop CC 2015.5 with the new content-aware crop and it works fine for simple fills such as sky, sand, grass etc but it is totally useless for fills with any sort structure or pattern for which it is just as useless as content-aware fill. This is not all that surprising since they both uses the same content-aware engine.
So I have to agree with JustBen that it's not really a new feature but rather just a new built-in action.

 

[dennybeall]

Why would I say that if I hadn't used it?
The slickness for me is that it handles all sides while also doing the crop and on the few I've done so far it did it very well.
Sure, like anything with any of the tools there can be some challenges but the part left for me is less. Nothing is ever going to be totally automatic and nothing will ever satisfy everyone.