Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill Vs. GIMP Resynthesizer

A few days ago Adobe released a sneak preview of a new feature in their newest Photoshop version, CS5. Content aware fill. I saw the video on Youtube and needless to say I was very impressed. And I couldn’t wait to try it out. You can see the preview below.

Today, I find out from a post in Omg!Ubuntu that GIMP has had this feature as an add-on and has been around for a long time. It has all the functionality of Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill and has more options to tweak it too.

To install in Ubuntu just type the command below in the terminal.

sudo apt-get install gimp-resynthesizer

To use it just select the area you want and go to Filters -> Maps -> Resynthesize

Well, looks like one-up for the open source world!