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

Can't get Content Aware Extend to work

Read all the tutorials but when I make a selection and select content aware extend it just moves the selection without extending it. Need to find some way get it to actually extend?
After making a selection, the "move" and "extend" options appear to do exactly the same thing.

OK, I got it working now but it does not work very well, or as expected.
This is more of a move and replace tool rather than an extend. It is labeled wrong. While the move tool fills in the space left behind, this sort of leaves the selection there and duplicates the selection to move. Not very useful. Can be better done better with the clone tool.
This tool also errors out quite quickly as you mentioned by moving the selection too far yet does not tell you. The problem is there is no feedback from the SW that it has errored out and can't do anything.
What would be helpful would be to create a REAL extend tool that duplicated repeating pixels between the selection and the current position.

How can I get content aware plugin for cs4

How can I get fill> content aware plugin for cs4

You can't. Features from new versions require you to buy the new version.

Content Aware Fill for CS5

Just saw this for CS5:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshop-20th-anniversary/contentaware-fill-sneak-peek/
Me like alot.

Katrin Eismann summarized its potential for me in this video: "...there are (PS) features that demo well and there are features that actually let you get work done and I really feel that this is one of them".
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/03/more_photoshop_cs5_sneaks.html
We'll see when CS5 hits the streets.

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.

Blurry Content Aware fill

I hope someone can give me advice to get a better result with my image. (PS CS6, Windows 8)
I was trying to remove a horse from an image using content aware fill. Every time the filled area is blurry and you can see the outlines very clearly. Here are the steps I took:
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)
Edit-fill-Content Aware, Opacity 100%, Mode Normal
I can't remember Content Aware fill giving me blurry results before, and wonder what I'm doing wrong.
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.
A trick you can do when CAF is sourcing from unwanted areas is to make rough selection of the area to be filled, along with the areas you are happy to be drawn from. Copy that selection to a new layer, and run CAF on that layer.
But upload a full screen grab for sure.

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

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

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.

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.

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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!

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.

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 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.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Charlie

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

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