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About this lesson
When you have a lot of individual elements that you want to be able to change as a group.
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Quick reference
Content Aware Patch Tool
A tool that uses witchcraft to magically remove items from your photo.
When to use
Use this tool to remove unwanted elements from your photos such as streetlights, or cars in the wrong place. This tool is the photo-bombers natural enemy .
Instructions
Make a selection around the area that you want removed
Use any selection tool, but the lasso is often the best.
Content Aware removal
Shift-Delete or Shift-Backspace to bring up the field dialog box.
Choose Content Aware from the drop-down.
Press OK
Content Aware Patch Tool
With a similar selection
Select the Healing Tool
Make sure you choose the Content Aware in the Option Bar at the top.
Drag the selection to the area that you want removed section to look like.
Tip
Use the adaptation settings on the Options bar to suit the image.
Login to download- 00:04 In Photoshop cs5 Adobe introduced Content Aware Fill:
- 00:08 A tool that uses witchcraft to magically remove items from your photo.
- 00:12 Okay it's not actually witchcraft but rather an algorithm
- 00:15 that none of us will ever understand. Now in Photoshop cs6 Content Aware has been
- 00:20 brought to the patch tool.
- 00:21 Let me show you why this is such a big deal. In this photo taken at Disney I'm
- 00:26 quite happy with the overall photo
- 00:27 except for the bottom right corner. A bunch of trees and lights have ruined my photo.
- 00:31 Let's first try out Content Aware Fill. I'm gonna grab my standard lasso tool
- 00:36 and draw a selection around the cluster I don't want. Once a selection is made
- 00:40 Shift-Delete or Shift-Backspace to bring up the field dialog box.
- 00:44 Here we want to make sure to choose Content Aware from the drop-down.
- 00:47 When we press OK, Photoshop will start to analyze the information around the
- 00:51 selection
- 00:52 and do its best to create an acceptable result. Well, it works well
- 00:55 most of the time.
- 00:56 In this case because our selection is so close to the castle
- 00:59 our result isn't exactly what we were expecting. Sure we can go the extra mile
- 01:03 create a smaller selection and try again
- 01:06 but there should be an easier way now there is with Content Aware.
- 01:10 Now available as part of the patch tool
- 01:12 certain edits will be that much easier. Going back to when we made our initial
- 01:15 selection
- 01:16 on our toolbar on the left let's find your patch tool. It may be hiding with
- 01:20 the other healing tools.
- 01:21 Hold your mouse button down to reveal the other tools. With that done at the top on
- 01:25 your options bar,
- 01:26 make sure you choose the Content Aware option. Now instead of Photoshop deciding
- 01:30 what will be sampled
- 01:31 we get to boss Photoshop around for a little bit. I can simply drag my
- 01:35 selection to the area I want Photoshop to sample
- 01:37 and once it's complete you'll notice that the result are near perfect.
- 01:41 Another change may have noticed is the adaptation setting on the Options bar.
- 01:44 This essentially tells Photoshop how much freedom in has when replacing your
- 01:48 selection.
- 01:49 Let's hop over to this picture I'm a crazy I'd lemur to show you how this
- 01:52 works.
- 01:53 On the left side of this image there's a stray tail which is distracting my
- 01:56 eye from the Lemur.
- 01:57 Creating a very basic selection around the tail, let's take a look at the
- 02:01 different adaptation options.
- 02:02 starting with very strict. You'll notice that when I release my mouse
- 02:06 overtop of these leaves, Photoshop will replace my selection with almost exactly
- 02:10 what was chosen:
- 02:11 with very little concern for the surrounding area. Now let's look at the
- 02:14 extreme opposite.
- 02:15 Choosing a very loose option will get Photoshop much more breathing room when
- 02:19 it attempts to fill the selection.
- 02:21 This time you'll notice that it uses the same leaves, but it also uses much
- 02:24 more from the surrounding area
- 02:26 which can result in a much better blend. I found that the medium setting usually
- 02:29 works quite well but in certain situations
- 02:31 the other settings may provide better results. And that's a new patch to with
- 02:35 Content Aware available in Photoshop CS6.
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