Black Diamond Productions

So while chatting with a fellow photographer today and I give him full credit for the idea for this post, I was showing him the latest  feature Adobe will be releasing in CS5 – Content Aware Fill. Go to 2:40 and watch that demo:

There sure were allot of oooo’s  and ah’s in the audience – I assume none of them were thinking about the possible consequences.

So how does this help photographers – Well it helps greatly by allowing us to fix massive mistakes & possibly save huge jobs. But the real question is what happens when Adobe empowers editors with the ability to remove anything easily from an image? It is really a problem we have daily and that is how to mark or watermark your images to hopefully maintain some kind of control over the images and the content you created. This incredible tool like many things great in our world can easily be used for evil.

I believe we all know that we as photographers should not impede the creation of such great time saving tools but on the flip side i ask Adobe: Can we please have a good way to secure our content when tools like this are released?

Adobe has very smart people working for them, they have and to this day create great products, now its time to make a reliable, secure way for photographers to lock down their images. We have asked for it for years and with the introduction of  Content Aware Fill it’s time to see some better options.

In diving a bit deeper into this topic it does seems Adobe is working on solutions as I could only image they would be, this article: http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/phscs2ip_digintegr.pdf and a few others show the high level of concern we all have but in the end we still have no real tools available to secure images.

Will any of these unknown security tools solve the problem, doubtful. But just like with “The Club” on your car steering wheel the harder we can make it the better.