COMMENTS:

Kenneth Deitcher, MD. FPSA	Very nice use of content aware. A great addition to Photoshop. Well done.
Elaine Icklan	Content Aware Fill is a great feature in CS5. Good detail in the feathers and color on the pelican.
Barbara Mallon	I like you photo but would not center it. Crop off the dead part on the left. I like the reflection leading into the pelican.
Tony Tam	You used the newest powerful tool “Content Aware Fill” from CS5 to clean up. The image got much improved. I thank you share your good experience of using “Content Aware “ tool with us. I have tried many times with this. If the images with simple background like sky, water or lawn, then can get a good result. When there are some objects around the removal element, after “Content Aware Fill” the area filled some other stuff with what around it, even leave a partial unwanted elements on it.
Carolyn Schlueter	Lovely capture and maybe I need to upgrade from CS3 to CS5. Very nice job of using the Content Aware Fill and Healing Brush. This is the first I've heard about the Content Aware Fill. I would have tightened the shot a bit and cropped more dead space off the top to bring the lovely reflection more into play and also cropped off more the left and left the right side just as it is to create the 'swimming into effect' and possibly tried 'flipping the bird' (no pun intended) to read him swimming into the picture rather than swimming out of it. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't.
Adrienne Bergen	Thank you for this illustration of that filter, it certainly does work well.

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Member Bio

Tom McCreary - Biography My wife, Carol, and I are retired and both enjoying our photo hobby. I have been taking photos since my college days, mostly slides at that time. I really fell in love with photography when I saw the "magic" of an image coming up in a B&W base hobby darkroom at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in the 1960's. As soon as I could, I set up my own darkroom, and when I married Carol, we combined our darkrooms. Three young kids took too much time and money, and we both kind of got out of the darkroom and serious photography. After the kids were grown, and we got back into photography, it seems like digital photography was taking over, and we started scanning slides or negatives and printing them on an inkjet printer. We never set up a darkroom again, and are now using an Epson printer -- light years better than the first inkjet printer that we had. I am a member of the Oklahoma Camera Club, and really enjoy the monthly competitions that we have -- both in prints and digital. I now use a Nikon digital camera and Photoshop to edit them. I think that taking slides helped me in my photography, because as you know, what you originally captured is what you had. Now, my digital capture at least usually gives me a good starting point to bring into Photoshop. I am having fun at trying new things in creative EID.