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Nick@Verisurf
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April 20, 2020
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Quadro RTX and InPainting in Photoshop CC

  • April 20, 2020
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I ran across an undated PNY promo for the Quadro RTX that describes AI InPainting as a 3rd party plug-in to Photoshop CC. When I contacted PNY, they said it was a reference to the healing brush and content-aware fill. Both of these functions exist in CS6 (which I'm currently using) so they're not new, and they're not 3rd party plug-ins. 

 

Was this just marketing hype that never came to fruition, or did Adobe incorporate AI InPainting into Photoshop? In either case, does the Quadro RTX Turing architecture improve the performance of these functions? 

 

I can do what I need to do with CS6 and a Quadro 2000D, but it looks like CC and a Quadro RTX 4000 would open up some other possibilities. I understand there are more cost-effective Nvidia cards, but I document CAD-based SW, so I need the Quadro.

 

Can anyone shed some light on the fate of AI InPainting in Photoshop CC?

 

Thanks,

Nick

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Conrad_C
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Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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April 20, 2020

I hadn’t heard about Quadro RTX InPainting, but the term “Inpainting” is definitely used by other applications, such as Affinity Photo, to describe their implementation of Content-Aware Fill.

 

Adobe has continued to work on Content-Aware Fill since CS6. Now Content-Aware Fill has its own workspace so that you can control it more precisely. I could be wrong but I don’t think Quadro RTX Turing architecture makes any difference; I think Content-Aware Fill and Healing Brush hare probably CPU-based because they are not included in the list of Photoshop features that are GPU-accelerated.

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Nick@VerisurfAuthor
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April 21, 2020

Conrad - thanks for the reply.

 

Here's the quote from PNY's promo: "AI InPainting (3rd party plug-in) instantly delivers..." The capitalization makes it appear to be a product, but as you noted, I can find it only in Affinity Photo. The page is pnydotcom/promo/adobe-creative-cloud if you're interested.

 

I noticed that the functions aren't listed as GPU-accelerated features, but since GPU acceleration isn't unique to Nvidia cards, it might still be possible that the Turing architecture adds unique capabilities to both functions. I need to do more digging.

 

Nick 

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