CONTENT-AWARE FILL IMG_5708

Using Adobe Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill (Edit>Content-Aware Fill…), introduced in CS5, and further developed in several iterations since; the tool by credited author Todor Georgiev, uses AI technology to sample and blend the best replacement pixels for a selected area. Typically the tool is used to remove blemishes, and ‘smarten up’ imagery. An unwanted area of damage. De-cluttering backgrounds. However, using the tool inversely yields different results. Instead of removing and eliminating unwanted sections, the entire image is the unwanted section. Scaling, repeating and blending the small sample into a larger canvas, until the final result is a mottled, incomprehensible regurgitation of pixel mess - resembling nothing of the original article.

Presenting “CONTENT-AWARE FILL.”

CONTENT-AWARE FILL IMG_5708

[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2023]

‘Bespoke imagery, rasterised, sampled, scaled, repeated and replaced by Adobe Photoshop’s Content-Aware AI tool.’

IMAGE SOURCE:

‘IMG_5708.HEIC’ taken inside The Bakery studio from my camera roll.

TYPEFACES:

‘Kern Condensed Medium’ by Pizza Typefaces.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

A portrait image of a repeated Brown/White/Metallic texture, with a Scarlet red square on the bottom left that reads “CONTENT-AWARE FILL, IMG_5708, HARRY VINCENT” in a condensed Sans-serif, on a Black background.