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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: dreed on August 03, 2016, 05:01:50 am
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The new "Fill" option with PS panorama is quite useful in many different circumstances (providing that you recognise its limits.) Is this likely to come across into LR or is it out of scope for LR because it isn't a parametric change? (Neither are the HDR/Panorama merges but...)
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If you are referring to the boundary warp feature for merge to panorama, introduced in ACR 9.4 then yes this was also introduced in LR CC 2015.4. (Creative Cloud members)
See this link http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2016/01
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No, not referring to boundary warp. The "Fill" is much more flexible than that.
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Maybe it would help if you called it "content aware fill", if that's what you mean. To answer your question, did people ever think it likely that panorama merging would come to Lightroom? Probably not, but it did. So same thing with content aware fill.
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Hopefully the Crop Edges -Content Aware Fill will come too. Hopefully before the Pano CAF, the boundary warp works pretty well AFAIC.
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Extensive content aware fill is a pixel based concept which is creating data, and often needs a little touching up. While nothing would surprise me anymore, this seems a pretty daunting challenge to manage with a metadata instruction set.
Even the current spot tool in Lightroom which is somewhat content aware and is very good isn’t in the same league as the healing brush in PS.
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Extensive content aware fill is a pixel based concept which is creating data, and often needs a little touching up. While nothing would surprise me anymore, this seems a pretty daunting challenge to manage with a metadata instruction set.
Even the current spot tool in Lightroom which is somewhat content aware and is very good isn’t in the same league as the healing brush in PS.
I have to agree with Wayne that this probably is beyond LR and a reason to actually use PS. This is creating new data that wasn't there before rather manipulating existing data. While I prefer to do multi-shot stitching in LR with the RAW images, a neat test would be trying to recreate the same image both ways. First outputting the RAW to pixel based images, merging and then using content aware fill to expand. Then try merging in LR, outputting in pixels to PS and then filling and area.
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I found that unless it is a solid like a sky the content aware fill just makes for more work as you end up most the same problems with content aware period. Duplication and strange patterns. Etc.
The boundary warp works very well for me but I am only shooting landscapes where I guess the warp is not as noticeable. Never had problems with the horizon line however as some have mentioned.
The warp in LR also is much better than doing it manually in CC after a pan as CC IMO will lose too much detail and LR does not.
Paul C