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John Nack posted a “sneak peek” of an upcoming Photoshop feature called Content-Aware Fill. There’s an impressive video as well.

Users are predictably drooling; some can’t even believe such a wonder is possible.

They can rest assured - it is possible and it has been around for years, e.g. in the GIMP plugin by Paul Harrison called Resynthesizer.

Here are some examples of what GIMP-resynthesize can do, on the same pictures used in the content-aware fill video:

I posted that Photoshop content aware fill video the other day, before I was informed that GIMP has been doing the same thing for years. I personally use GIMP for my image editing (because it’s awesome, free, and open-source) and now I need this plug-in.

Thank you, carry on.