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Remove a Person From a Photo With Photoshop CS5's Content Aware Feature. With the launch of the new Adobe Suite of programs comes the long awaited Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Remove a Person From a Photo With Photoshop CS5's Content Aware Feature

Packed with new features to speed up your workflow it truly is the most advanced edition of Photoshop to date. One of the new features we will be looking at today is called Content Aware. This feature allows you to quickly fill in a selection with surrounding content making it look like a part of the original image. In this case we will choose to remove a person from a photo, this can be done in less than five minutes. With the additional image enhancements this tutorial will take you less than 10 minutes to complete. Original Image Before we begin, download the image that we will be working with. Step 1 Using the content aware tool on different images produces different results.

Step 2 We are extracting the person on the left from this photo. Notice in the image below how far I am drawing the path from the subject. Step 3. 50 Essential Tools I Use For Blogging and Freelance Writing.

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75 Startup Tools And Apps new business ideas and startups

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Startup Advice: How Entrepeneurs Gain Credibility

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How to Write a Winning Business Plan. Like this article?

How to Write a Winning Business Plan

Please share it! If you’ve ever written a business plan you know that it can be one of the most difficult documents you’ll ever create. I’ve written numerous plans both for myself and others and it was an arduous task – but also a necessary one – especially if it was to be used to secure formal outside funding. The Traditional Business Plan The typical plan I produced usually included the following - - Executive summary – Mission statement – Success factors – Objectives – Company summary – Start- up Summary (funding & requirements) – Locations – Ownership – Services – Competitive comparison – Market Analysis (Trends, Growth, Needs) – Strategy and Implementation – Sales summary (Strategy, Forecast, Milestones) – Management summary (Executive profiles) – Financial Plan – Projected P/L Those are the sections of the typical business plan.

The Problem with Traditional Business Plans.