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Graphic Designers can’t wait to get their hands, mice and stylus’ on the new Adobe Photoshop CS5 coming out in a few weeks on April 12th.  Last October the new PatchMatch technology getting incorporated into the Content-Aware feature upgrade was pretty cool for those following Adobe developers, but now that the super feature set is ready for primetime, People can’t wait to start saving zillions of pixels of time deleting wires from pictures, camera flare and your extra buffalo or leaf too.

Original Content Aware Patch Match Video from Adobe Development

Official Preview of CS5 with Content Aware running Patch Match technology

The technology makes it super easy to remove an object from a picture without having to do a lot of ‘photoshopping’ after wards to patch up the blank holes in the picture or the blurred coloring of an image that was never quite right in Adobe CS4 Extended.

CS5 Content Aware Removes a Tree and fixes the background by Hitting the Delete Button

If you have been waiting to upgrade an older version of Photoshop this feature in the upgrade may be reason enough alone to justify the super high expense, possibly even pulling in some open source users on Gimp back into the Adobe fold.  Afterall, if you can automate something that used to take hours or days, that rapidly starts to pay for itself in savings (or extra billable hours).