A little Content Aware Fill trick

Learned this watching a YouTube video clip, many may be aware of this extra step.
This will eliminate the sometimes visible outline of the object after it's been removed, requiring much less time with Spot Healing for a final edit:
After selecting the object to be removed and before implementing Content Aware Fill do this:
1. Go to Select --> Modify --> Expand and choose 10 pixels (give or take) --> OK
2. Now do the Fill.
Works quite well for my purposes.
trfab

Thanks for passing that along.
It's especially good for lifting a subject from a too-sharp background and blurring it, reducing DOF...
1. Select and copy the subject out.
2. Paste as a new layer.
3. Do the selection trick listed above.
4. Blur the lower layer with Lens Blur.
Voila, visual separation of subject from background.
-Noel

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Is there a way how to sample from small area and then apply content aware fill to the much more bigger area? For example - there is an object on a table. The object fills 90% of the image and the table 10% image. Now, I just want to delete the object. But that doesnt work with content aware fill, because the area around it is much smaller. Is there a solution for this?

I am not sure that CAF is the right tool if you want to fill a large area sampling from a small area. You might get away with doing it in stages
One trick is copy just those areas you want to sample from, to a new layer, and use CAF on that layer, but without seeing your image, it is difficult to say what the best aproach is going to be.

Content aware fill at edge of picture

Hello all,
I've just purchased and installed CS5. I love the content aware fill feature. I have an issue with it for which I'm looking for some suggestions...
I have a photo with a rope that goes through that I want to eliminate. The background is grass and sky. The content aware healing works great everywhere except when I extend the area that I want to fix all the way to the edge of the photo. Away from the edges I get what I expect. But at the edge, I get black or white "residue" overlayed on the cleaned up area. Same thing happened when I tried to eliminate a foot that shows up at the bottom edge of the frame.
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Some other things to try:
Select the image around the edges, making sure you expand the selection into the "good" pixels a little ways, then use the Edit - Fill function rather than using the Spot Healing brush. This was the way that was shown in one of the CS5.com videos.
Another thing that might help under certain conditions - if you actually have data beyond the edges of the canvas (which can happen if you've been combining data or have used crop with the "Hide" option rather than Delete: Try dragging the crop tool around the entire image then selecting the Delete button, then cropping. I'm not sure but I think Content Aware Fill might be sensitive to image data that extends beyond the edges of the canvas.
-Noel

Content-aware fill and layers

One thing I'd been wondering about very eagerly is whether the content-aware fill feature(s) would source their content from multiple layers, or only from the current layer, or whether there might be an option, as for the clone stamp tool for example, to choose whether the current layer, the current layer and below, or all layers were sampled for content.
I hadn't noticed any demonstration of content-aware fill on a document having multiple pixel layers.
Here are the results from my testing. (They may be wrong!)
What I want to be able to do, is to put a single "corrections" layer at the top of a layer stack, and to make local corrections using content from all layers below—with the latter being rasterized on the fly as necessary, so that the cumulative effect of masks, layer effects, blending modes, transparency, knockout, adjustment layers and anything else, are all used as content for the corrections. Until now I've done something similar but more limited with the clone stamp tool. Content awareness seemed to offer greater promise, for three reasons. (1) No back and forth: no choosing and monitoring of source pixels. (2) No visible softening of the correction at the edge of the brush. (3) The promise of imperceptible results with very little thought or work.
So, can we do this?
For fill, content-awareness only extends to pixels in the current layer. It doesn't look below. If the current layer is empty, then Photoshop comes back with a message that filling is not possible in content-aware mode, because not enough content can be found. If the current layer is blank (e.g. all white), then you just get more blank. That's fair enough. You could use content-aware fill early, on source layers, or late and destructively, after flattening. But not what I'm looking for.
The same is not true of the spot healing brush, which has both a "content aware" option and a "sample all layers option". And it works wonders. It does exactly what I want. Empty layer, sample all layers, run the the brush over dodgy parts of the image, and hey presto—it really does feel as if you have a wand in your hand.
This feature alone would be enough to persuade me to upgrade to CS5, since it will save me hours of work and produce a better result (in my context, cartography). Well done Adobe.

You're asking about a pretty rarified realm. Not a whole lot of people ever have 24GB let alone beyond.
I stitch big panos all the time, though 1 GP is a fair bit larger than most I do; mine are in the 100-300 MP range. I should mention I almost exclusively edit in 16 bits/channel mode. I also use content aware fill fairly regularly without problems. In my case I have 8 GB of RAM in a Dell Precision workstation. It doesn't seem to get too winded with 8 GB, so 24 GB seems about right for what you want.
You definitely DO want a workstation that's been purpose-built for extra throughput and reliability if you're going to be working on ultra-large datasets.
I'd say buy the workstation with 24 GB of RAM and see how it goes. Also the RAID is a very good idea (I use RAID 0). Apparently the 6 Gb/sec SATA stuff is starting to become real too, though most drives can't even keep up with the old 3 Gb speed yet.
-Noel

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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Is this a situation where having the .psd file is a must?
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Mac OS X 10.6.8

I used the lasso tool to select first one colour area. selected the Brush tool so I could Alt click on the background colour, and Alt backspace to fill the selection. Then I inverted the selection (ctrl Shift i). Used the lasso with the ALT key to remove the red area from the selection. Resampled the other background colour, and Alt backspace to fill.
I did wonder if there was more going on in background because the tiny graphic you uploaded has some artefacts and I was not sure if they were supposed to be there, but a simple graphic like that is an easy thing to create from scratch. When I have to include a logo in magazine artwork, and only have a horrible little sample that I couldn't bare to put on the page, I enlarge it to a useful size, and use it to trace a nice, new, clean graphic from scratch.

Content aware fill issues?

I am trying to use content aware fill but every time I do the area filled in is always slightly darker? There is only one layer and no adjustment layres. I ahve tried make slightly different selections and it always is slightly darker. I can use the same selection with the patch tool and it works as expected. I can also use the spot healing brush with content aware and that works fine. Any ideas?
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I get the same results I thin the content aware feature is good as a strating point but n some cases like a background like the one you have the patch tool might rove better.
this is the patch too or a combination of the content aware feature and the patch tool.
this is with the patch tool.
I don't make feature suggestions anymore for photoshop but i will here.
Te content aware feature requires that one deliberately tell the feature what the content that it should be aware of actually is, I know this feature was thought to be complete, but it is a good start only. It has little practical use in its current state as far as I can tell if it is going to be a serious retouching tool were the result is critical.
the way the feature should work is that the user defines the areas that are be the content it should be aware of it should then have areas that are transitional and there should be safe areas as well which have to be protected and all of these features should have settings as to color transition and darkness and lightness control as well as degrees of content substitution.
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I hope someone can give me advice to get a better result with my image. (PS CS6, Windows 8)
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On copy of background layer roughly select the area to be filled with the lasso tool (settings Feather 0 px, Anti-alias unchecked or checked, makes no difference)
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I tried using the patch tool, but that gives me a blurred edge around the patched area (no matter what the adaptation setting is).

Dag, I wonder if that would happen? Doesn't CAF try to make an inteligent best guess at where to draw the source pixels? It would be helpful to see a screen grab of the entire workspace, but I'm thinking something very wrong there.
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But upload a full screen grab for sure.

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I've read a couple of other threads on this, but none of the suggestions seem to work (I've tried selecting larger areas into the desired part of the photograph, and using a healing brush instead of content aware fill) for getting the leg I want to remove from the edge of the photo. Perhaps part of the problem is that there is no way for me to select a part such that more than 3 sides of the selection contain the desired content with which I wish to fill the area. Is there any way to tell content-aware fill which parts of the content I want it to use to fill the area? Any other suggestions? Thanks very much in advance. Here's the photo below so you can get a better sense of what I'm talking about. I'd like to remove the leg/baby from the left corner...I'd like to get the orange fence out of there too, but I think that might be beyond my skill level.
Best,
Mara
Here's my best concoction using clone stamps etc., but I feel like from the look of it alone I can tell I'm using the wrong tools...or using the right tools incorrectly

Some other things to try:
Select the image around the edges, making sure you expand the selection into the "good" pixels a little ways, then use the Edit - Fill function rather than using the Spot Healing brush. This was the way that was shown in one of the CS5.com videos.
Another thing that might help under certain conditions - if you actually have data beyond the edges of the canvas (which can happen if you've been combining data or have used crop with the "Hide" option rather than Delete: Try dragging the crop tool around the entire image then selecting the Delete button, then cropping. I'm not sure but I think Content Aware Fill might be sensitive to image data that extends beyond the edges of the canvas.
-Noel

Suddenly content aware fill is UNaware?

SUDDENLY this is how content aware fill works, or rather does not.
Any ideas? Thanks

You've given it an image with a white border, and expect it to know that the white pixels aren't desired. It can't really know that.
You could put the image on a layer, use the Magic Wand tool to select the white, expand the selection just a little, then delete it. Content Aware Fill knows that transparent pixels aren't candidates for being used to reconstruct parts of the image.
Or you could use layer masking. Similarly, Content Aware Fill won't use parts of the image that are masked off to fill other parts.
Hope this helps.
-Noel

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.
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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."
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Remove a logo from a video clip with content aware fill?

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I'm a career software architect engineer of 35 years, and I have to side with Howard on this one.
Like Howard, I feel you're thinking about this way too simplistically. Trying to work out what best to fill a part of an image with in 3 dimensions (x, y, and time) and have it look believable almost boggles the mind, especially thinking of a general case (your logo example is far to simplistic in itself). The task is far from a simple looping repeat of what is being done 2 dimensionally on a still frame. Frankly, it's more likely related to what's done with CGI, where scenes are modeled in 3D (4D actually) so certain elements can be replaced believably.
Think about it... If CAF is presently replacing part of an image with something it finds through some heuristics in another part of the image, and the stuff in that part of each frame is changing - and it would, because this is video, not still imagery - then it will select differently every time. What makes you think it would select something that even resembles what it selected for another frame? What you'd end up with is a frame by frame mishmash that would just make the outline of the selection obvious.
Regarding CAF applied to individual frames, then your finding the result isn't coming out as expected in all the frames of the video (e.g., when you're testing this concept) may indicate a problem with the way you're using the tool, or possibly even a bug. You might want to describe step by step what you're doing and show the result you're [not] getting.
-Noel

How content-aware fill with smart objects

I've done a (hopefully) fairly exhaustive search, and don't see anything on how to use these things together...
Open an image as a smart object. Add a layer for cloning and healing. Maybe add a curves adjustment layer and/or a hue/sat adjustment layer. Adjust things as needed.
Decide you want to extend the background on one side. Increase the canvas on that side. Select the chunk of canvas. What process should be used to employ the content-aware fill for that new piece of canvas? I don't seem to be able to have the smart object layer selected. If I have another layer selected the fill fails saying there aren't enough opaque (?) pixels.

Oddly, I can't even find any discussion on this anywhere... There's got to be a better way than what I've tried so far.
At present the only way I've found is to
duplicate the smart object
rasterize it
select the part to fill
do the content-aware fill
leave the selection on and copy/paste the selection so it's on a new layer
delete the rasterized copy of the smart object
There's gotta be a better/smarter/faster way than this... How are other people doing this?

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