Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5 has quit

Hi, this function seems to have simply stopped working. I tried it on two images and the wheel spins while it "works," but absolutely nothing happens. Any ideas why and/or how to fix? Thanks!

Is it a huge image on a low spec system perhaps? CAF can make Photoshop really put its thinking cap on.
If it was something like that, then just try it with a tiny selection of course, but I'm guessing the OP has already thought about that.

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Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5.5 has quit working

Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5.5 has quit. Was working just fine now nothing happens.

Please read these and proceed accordingly (restoring Preferences after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved might be of special interest):
http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2012/07/photoshop-basic-troubleshooting-steps-to-fix-mos t-issues.html
http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2325

Content Aware Fill: limitations

I have been testing the new content aware fill in Photoshop CS5 trial version. Most of my interest is to remove long spans of power lines from my landscape photos. Every attempt I have made so far fails with a message not enough data once the region around the power lines is selected and content aware fill is applied.
Has anyone successfully applied content aware fill to such fine detail as a power line? Is there something I am missing? I currently use CS4. Content aware fill that worked for power lines is one of the primary reasons I would upgrade to CS5 in addition to be able to run Photoshop as 64 bit application on my Mac.

Hi,
Use the 'Spot Healing Brush' instead of the Healing Brush; it has the content aware option on the top and it really does work well. I just used it on a job removing floor cracks in some supermarket images and using many short strokes instead of a few long ones worked perfectly. Nice for those powerlines, too!
Good luck

Dak's content aware fill action in PSE 10

Hi, There is an action available as some of you will no for PSE 9 (Dak's content aware fill action)
However for some reason the action will not work in PSE 10.
What it does, it allows you to make a selection and then fill that selection, like content aware fill command in CS5.
Is there any wizkids out there who maybe able to get the action to work in PSE 10 or figure out why it will not work?
You can read more at http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60535&page=20
Thanks for readong
Russ

Specifically about colour curves, have you tried the free SmartCurve plug-in?
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Plugins/SmartCurve.shtml
I don't know if it can be used as an adjustment layer, but it can certainly adjust curves for individual channels.
In general, since I will never be able to afford the "big" Photoshop, I've found that I need to use a few image editing programs -- no individual program has all the features PS does, so I use PSE, Corel's CorelDraw Graphics Suite X5, and the free Paint.Net. It's a balancing act between cost/benefit. (By the way, the CDRGS PhotoPaint does have a curves adjustment layer.)
Ken

Content Aware Fill--"not enough memory"

After watching a video on Adobe's site about using the new "Content aware fill" tool in CS5, I am attempting to fill the blank space left when merging five images to make a panorama. The resulting file, after flattening, is 296M. When I select the blank area around the image and attemp to content fill, it begins work and then stops about halfway through with this message, "Could not fill because there is not enough memory (RAM)".
I'm running a MacPro (3,1) with OS 10.6.3, with 26 GB RAM. Photoshop recognizes all the RAM, and I have dedicated 22 GB just for Photoshop. Surely this is enough RAM for just about any operation one can attempt in Photoshop. PS is running in 64 bit, too. Any help on this issue would be very much appreciated.

Murph my first thought on this is there might be something else runniing that is eating up your memory.
I'm running a Mac Pro 2008 with 24GB rams with 70% or just over 16GB available and have had
no issues doing the same thing you are attempting on tiff images that are 1.4GB in size.
Check your activity monitor and see what's running and how much memory is being used by other
processes.

How Content-Aware Fill can help with Video | Short and Suite | Adobe TV

Content-Aware fill in Photoshop is a powerful tool for generating clean plates in Premiere Pro. Karl Soule’ provides some examples.
http://adobe.ly/zpuKyy

Great idea that I can definitely apply to some video that has a similar (set of!) problems. Thanks Karl!

Removing Print from a Photo with Photoshop CS5's Content-Aware Fill

If I have a whole line of type on top of a photo a clients sends me and I want to remove it, can I mark the whole line off with the Healing Brush Tool and proceed? Or do I need to select each letter individually?
Thank you.

I was able to remove the whole line of typ at once and have Content-Aware Fill do its magic to the whole area where there'd once been type.

CS5 64-bit Content Aware Fill kills Healing brush, clone stamp

Here's the deal:
1) Open image for retouching-background layer only
2) Make copy of background layer 'cause I never retouch there and CAF won't work on the blank layer I use for all other retouching
3) Add blank layer above the previous two layers for clone stamp/healing work--can't use it for content-aware fill
4) Find something that will retouch better with CAF than cloning or healing and fix it with CAF on layer 2
5) The healing brush and clone stamp now do not work. I can see them, and the clone stamp continues to preview in the brush correctly, but when clicked nothing happens.
The only solution I've found is to save the image and restart CS5.
CS5 64-bit, Win7 Pro 64 bit, Core2duo e8400, 8gigs RAM
Consistent and reproducibly annoying...
Steve

Okay, I duplicated your setup exactly with CS5 64 bit on Win 7 x64. Background layer, copy of background layer, and transparent touch-up layer.
You are unclear about exactly how you're invoking the Content Aware Fill.
I went through exactly the steps you suggested, as evidenced by the following Photoshop Edit log excerpt. I saw NO difficulties using the Clone tool in the last step.
Are you aware you can use the SPOT Healing Brush, in Content Aware mode, to do what you're doing on the transparent top layer (thereby avoiding the need to work on the background copy layer)? It is able to deal with the image being on the lower layers.
Photoshop Edit Log:
2010-06-17 10:58:24 File Blake_and_Mom.psd opened
Open
   C:\MMEDIA\Retouched Photos\Blake_and_Mom.psd
Duplicate Layer
Duplicate current layer
   5
New Layer
Make layer
Select clone stamp
Set Source Sampling Point of current application
   To: Document Location
   Source: layer “Layer 1”
   Location: 1420 pixels, 743 pixels
Clone Stamp
Clone Stamp
Clone Stamp
Select layer “Background copy”
   Without Make Visible
Select spot healing brush
Spot Healing Brush
Select layer “Layer 1”
   Without Make Visible
Select clone stamp
Set Source Sampling Point of current application
   To: Document Location
   Source: layer “Layer 1”
   Location: 1299 pixels, 879 pixels
Clone Stamp

Photoshop Content Aware Fill

I'm unable to get Photoshop CC Content Aware Fill to work at all. I identify the area with the lasso, click on Edit/Fill/Content Aware -OK, and nothing happens. What am I missing? Thanks.

This is a tutorial on the basics, I'd check your opacity and restart PS.
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/content-aware-fill-cs5/

CS5 Content Aware Fill

Demos of the new Photoshop CS5 "content aware fill" feature on the Youtubes -- it looks impressive.
I know " Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results", but any guesses on when (or if) this feature would hit the PS Elements code stream?

This is looking like an advanced "must-have" type of feature so my guess is Adobe will keep it at the premium Photoshop level at least until CS6.
Note that Content Aware Scaling was introduced in Photoshop CS4, which came out at around the same time as Photoshop Elements 7 in the autumn of 2008 - but this other related feature wasn't added to Photoshop Elements 8 last fall. Just a possible analogy.

Photoshop Elements 13 Content Aware Fill Not Working

Hello, all. I am sort of new to Elements 13 and seem to have run into a bit of a blockade. I'm trying to eliminate a tree in the background of a photo with content aware fill capability; however, when I try this it loads as if it's working on it but when it's finished nothing has changed. I thought perhaps it wasn't prominent enough to recognize what to fill (which did seem unlikely), so I went ahead and tried it on something more isolated and still nothing is happening. I feel as though I must have something set incorrectly because a lot of my other tools aren't working either, but I can't imagine what it is I've done wrong.

When the editor gets weird, the first thing to do is to delete the preferences. Go the editor preferences>general, click this button and restart the editor:

Disappointed in PS CS5 content aware fill

My first few attempts at using the content aware fill have been disappointing. I created a panorama and wanted to fill the foreground (misty water) and the sky (cloudy) to the top and bottom of the frame. I selected the transparent pixel areas that needed to be filled with the water and sky, then I expanded the selection 6 pixels, so that PS had some pixels to reference for the filling operation. There wasn't much sky above the tree line, but the content aware fill worked fine in this area. However filling the foreground with the misty water did not. PS insists on referencing pixels well out of my selection and using these as part of the fill. Even after repeatedly undoing and redoing the content aware fill, PS insisted on using pixels well out of the selected pixels to create the new content aware fill. Why is this?
It seems that the only user control over this tool is the selected pixels. Shouldn't this tell PS the pixels you want it to reference for creating the fill? Why does PS insist on going well outside of the selected pixels for a reference. If I wanted it to reference other areas of the photo I would simply include those areas in or very close to the selection. Isn't the tool suppose to use the selection as a guide? How can you tell the tool to use the selected pixels as a reference?

Content Aware Fill simply does not work!
I would suggest that once you use a tool such as magnetic lasso or marquis square to define an area:
To replace:
1. Tones with colour (e.g. a scratch on a car, breadcrumbs on a tabletop)
a. The eyedropper be used to sample a colour.
b. Once the colour is defined, then the content aware is used.
2. Pattern with a pattern (e.g. beach sand to replace dead fish and weeds on a beach)
a. Use the rubber stamp to define the pattern that will replace the "corrupt" area
   b. Once the pattern is defined, then the content aware is used.
The problem also has to do with Internet reporters or whatever they're called. They all follow each other and make the same comments.
   What happens is that all of these NetPorters end up almost verbatum with the same same material. Unfortunately, software netporting is not unique.
   The same holds true for stock netporting. Some "expert" in some office off Wallstreet (everyone is moving away from there) writes that Company B23W1X
   should make $1.78 a share with net profit for the quarter to be $ 148,000,000. Pretty soon there are 100,000,000 same same articles copied verbatum from
   the NET or some other "expert" copied form the first netporter expert , but "adjusted" the data by 1 cent and for the profit 138,000,000. COmpany B23W1X only makes $ 1.77 a share mand only $ 147,999,999.00.
What happens - all the brokerage houses sell.
Unfortunately, what happens with software is that everyone forks over a bundle of money for the "new features" only to find out they don't always work!
Bottom line: wait a few months till the regular public and users start posting.
The same stampede has occurred with Apple's new operating system Lion OS 10.7. Apple sold 1 million of this OS in 1 day!
I waited, and started to read the problems people were having. I'm still considering the new OS.

Can't get Content Aware Fill in CS5 to work as advertised in many tutorials...

I have tried unsuccessfully to get Content Aware Fill in CS5 to work as advertised in the dozens of tutorials I have watched. I have used many of the techniques, but unless the background is a simple one, CAF seems to drag in stuff from all over (even if I protect it in a mask) the background. Is there some special trick I am not aware of?

That doesn't work as advertized. Make your selection save it with a name as a Channel. When Content Aware Scale is now selected, I get a bounding box around the selection. Enable Protect and nothing changes. The bounding box is still there and is the only part of the image that will respond and not even as Content Aware. It just moves around. I've tried it over and over with the tutorial open so I could follow and the only difference I can see is he is on a Mac.
What I want to do is stretch so here is the steps;
Make a new Layer the size of the finished image. Move the image into that. You have a white space ready to be filled. Select the protected area. Save as Channel with Name. Go to ContentAware Scale. A Bounding Box immediately appears around the selection. That is the only adjustable part, not the entire image.
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Content Aware Fill in CS5

According to a Russell Brown tutorial: Select an area, key Shift + Delete, and the Content Aware Fill dialog opens; but I don't get the Content Aware Fill dialog. It just clears/cuts the selected area as in previous versions.
The tutorial doesn't indicate any further required steps, but I must be missing something????
Regards,
Leigh

Photoshop Help indicated that EDIT/FILL must be selected, and that worked.
Doesn't say anything about SHIFT/DELETE. Am I missing something here?
Leigh

Using content aware fill in photomerge

I have three images (TIFF files total size about 240MB) that I want to create a panoramic from. I use photomerge in CS5. All works well (in 64 bit) but when I choose the content aware fill option an error message comes up (see image). I have 4GB Ram memory on my 3.06 Ghz Intel Core Duo Processor. The message that it could not complete the fill because there is not enough memory should not happen. My system fits all the requirements to run CS5. Is this a bug in the adobe software? Is there someone with expertise on this that can advise me?
Much appreciated
LS

Chris:
Perhaps you can help me with a somewhat related problem. I can't get the following Commands to operate in 64 bit, i.e., Photomerge, Merge to HDR and Load into Photoshop Layers. They work fine in 32 bit despite the fact that you're limited to only a moderate amount of RAM in 32 bit (1470). When I'm in 64 bit mode, the amount of RAM I've allocated is 5348. I'm working on a Quad Core Mac Pro with a whole 1 TB hard drive dedicated to as a scratch disk. This doesn't make sense to me that when you're throwing more capacity at the process is when the problem arises. What I consistently get is a dialog box stating "Photoshop Quite Unexpectedly."
Herman R.

Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5 has quit

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