Where's the "Content Aware Fill" tool?

This isn't really a question because I know it's not in the current beta version of LR 4 but I sure was hoping Adobe would add it! That's about the only tool in Photoshop that a photographer could REALLY REALLY use because of so many little irritating "eye polluting" objects like telephone wires and poles, signs and little flaws in nature that can ruin a perfectly wonderful shot. I can't afford to buy Photoshop, and this has been one of the best tools Adobe could develop, but it should be where photographers are "living" the most - and that's in Lightroom! If it's not in this version, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add it to the wish list. You would make so many of us very happy and expedite our editing processes when we have to shoot something we know we have to edit because of the eye pollution. THANKS!

W.W. Webster wrote:
There are no great technology issues involved here, just marketing decisions, including the respective feature sets in PS, PSE and LR. However a significant new function, as is Content Aware Fill, is appropriate for inclusion in a major level release (L3 > L4) rather than in an earlier point release. Does anyone seriously believe that Content Aware Fill will not be part of LR until v5.0?
There are far more technical difficulties than you may believe ... further research on the differences between the two types of apps and how they work may be enlightening ...
I have some confidence that "if" Content Aware Fill was going to be a part of LR4, it would be in the beta for the simple fact it would need considerable Real World testing ... as I am sure such a feature in a parametric workflow would be a considerable hit on performance and resources ... where the engineers would want as much feedback from users as they could get since having a duplicate of every possible OS and hardware combination on hand in the office to test such an extensive feature isn't possible.
It's possible, however, I think, quite unlikely we will see this feature in the very near future ... though, I would like very much to be wrong.

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Are you trying to remove a watermark that says something like "Proof" or "Copyright"? If so, you won't get much help here. The best advice in that case is to actually pay for the photo. It's surprising how many people ask for help doing illegal things.
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IceflowStudios wrote:
I think you want to try out the Content-Aware Move Tool, not the Patch Tool. The Patch Tool is used to remove subjects, not move them.
The Patch tool does a great job of copying selected pixels to a new location when in destination mode. The new CA Move tool is a variation on this that uses CA Fill to fix the space thos pixels were copied from. In actual fact the Patch tool is still doing a better job that CAM at seamlessly copying pixels with the distortion CAM seems to introduce.
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http://www.pixelgenius.com/tips/evening-healing.pdf
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