content aware fill is really getting worse
On the Mac 27.6X, PS content aware keeps getting worse, and we (several of us work together) suspect that AI is ruining everything. Yesterday one of my editors stitched a scan together from about a dozen images and he had missed a small section. There wasn’t really much there in terms of detail, so he just selected it with the lasso tool and hit the delete key and selected “content aware fill”. If filled the hole with green. He then tried some different things, and each time it was progressively worse, at one point making a green square with a laptop in it.
When we scan or photograph paintings, some paper paintings we hold up with magnets. He had not yet cloned out the magnets on the edges, and PS filled the green square in the middle of the image with a large magnet from the edge of the painting. No proximity at all to the area being filled.
And while I know this is an anecdotal example, I was having a conversation with someone about PS the other day at the gym, and this person says “have you noticed how AI is ruining the content aware tool?”. Yeah. I noticed. Others have noticed too. What was one of the most amazing advancements that Adobe made in PS, it’s being ruined by AI.
Adobe, take notice. We notice. We who use this program every day and have for decades notice, and can’t be gaslit into believing we’re wrong about it. AI is ruining everything, and Adobe PS is at the top of the list. So is Premier. While I don’t use it every day, I know people who do, and the comments are the same as with PS. We’re all seeing more garbage programming and a decrease in productivity, and new bugs with each release. From broken droplets to content aware, to basic sizing issues, Adobe needs to get its act together.