A common request clients make of photographers and Photoshop specialists is to add or remove elements in a scene. Depending on the complexity of the image, this can sometimes be extremely tedious and time-consuming work. If you have experience doing this sort of thing, then please watch the following video and prepare to have your mind blown.

Adobe’s upcoming “Content-Aware Fill” feature is able to dynamically analyze an image and automatically make guesses as to the best way to synthesize texture, as John Knack says. The examples get better as the video goes on, and the last scene in which Bryan O’Neil Hughes adds a mass of content to a panorama with uneven edges looks like complete and utter magic.