Content-aware-fill and magic-wand-tool

Hello! I use the content-aware-fill to remove some text from a photo. To do so, I use the "Polygonal Lasso Tool", select the text with a generous border and click edit -> fill -> content-aware-fill.
This works fine, but selecting a text with the lasso-tool is very much work. So I tried to use the magic-wand-tool - some clicks and the text is selected, very fast and fine. No applying the content-aware-fill - the text vanishes somehow, but the borders of the text are still visible. I guess you really have to select the text AND some background around it to make content-aware-fill work. But isn't there a way to do this with the magic-wand-tool? Increasing the tolerance didn't work, I would need something like "magic-wand-tool and increase the selected area +20 pixels in all directions".
What procedure do you suggest?

Are you trying to remove a watermark that says something like "Proof" or "Copyright"? If so, you won't get much help here. The best advice in that case is to actually pay for the photo. It's surprising how many people ask for help doing illegal things.
Please confirm you are not trying to defeat someone's copyright (e.g., post a small part of the image), and I'm sure you'll get more help.
-Noel

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I just upgraded to CS6 64 bit under Windows 7. I used content aware fill and the spot healing tool on CS5 under XP with no problems. Now under CS6 they leave a smudge. For example, if the is a spot on a vein of a leaf, now, instead of removing the spot and filling in the line of the vein I just get a smudge the size of the spot healing brush.
Content aware fill now leaves a smudged and obviously poor result.
Is there some new option or behavior under CS6 that I need to understand to fix this or is this simply a bug?
Thanks for any and all help.
Selby

I have been experimenting and have found out something more. Previously, before doing a content aware fill operation I would create a new layer at the top of the layer stack that was a merge of all layers below it (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E) and the content aware fill operation worked very well.
In CS6 it now appears to me that it still gets influenced by the lower layers in the stack, despite the fact that it is operating on the merge of those layers. If I duplicate the image, and then flatten the duplicate, the content aware fill operation then in some cases works as I would expect. I then duplicate the layer back to my original image, delete the parts I don't need and put it at the top of the stack in my original image.
So something appears to have changed in CS6 and it might be a bug.
Selby

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

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?
Thanks,
Steve

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.
The feature has an excellent concept but is weak in execution and little thought was given to the practical side of the feature.

CS4 Lasso Tool and Content Aware Fill

I saw this performed by Moose Petersen to duplicate
and fill an area to expand an image. He used the Lasso tool to enclose the area (now vacant) that he wanted to fill with the exact contents on the edge of the image.
I have been unable to reconstruct his process.
Can someone offer step by step help to accomplish this? Wish to fill the right side to make size 16x20.
Thanks!
Dan

Here, I'll be a bit more specific. Do things in exactly this order:
>1. Make the image a layer (not Background).
To do this, make the LAYERS panel visible, hold down the Alt key, and double-click the Background. It should become Layer 0. If it is not the Background to start with, you can skip this step.
>2. Increase the canvas size to 16 x 20 ratio, opening new space on the right.
Image - Image Size, UNcheck Resample Image, and make the image 20 inches tall. Then Choose Image - Canvas Size, and expand to the right as follows:
>3. Do a rectangular selection excluding most of the red parts.
You should have, at this point, an image with some checkerboard showing on the right side. Choose the Rectangular Marquee tool as I noted above in post 5 and drag it around the area shown in post 1, including a few of the red parts.
>4. Edit - Content Aware Scale and drag the right edge handle to fill the canvas.
Click Edit - Content Aware Scale from the menu. You'll get a set of little square handles all around the portion of the image that you selected. Grab the one at the right edge and pull to the right, as shown here:
>5. Touch up (e.g., lightly blur) any edges that have become noisy because of the operation.
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Photoshop CS6 doesn't color properly. Whetever I use brush tool or elliptical marquee tool to do the lines (with brush tool I use Hard Round, not soft), it doesn't color the whole area when i fill them with color. This happens with both magic wand tool AND paint bucket tool, there is always a small uncolored area near the lines. I have tolerance on 30, and anti-alias, contiguous and sample all layers boxes checked. (this setting worked on my old CS3) I have tried tolerance from 0 to 100, no difference. I have also tried unchecking the boxes I just mentioned, still no difference. I hope there is a solution for this, because it is tedious to always go to the Select - Modify - Expand every time I need to color some area. So how do I fix this problem? I use seperate layers for lines and colors, like I have always done with other Photoshop versions. Even in school where they have CS5 those normal settings work.

Hello Chris,
I don't think this is a "user error". I think Adobe should be able to program a state of the art paint bucket, which is capable to get this done right.
Other applications are able to get this done right.
Please don't fall into a programmer's ignorance ("this is done right by definition") but listen to us artists and improve this unintuitive behavior. Add something like "ignore transparent pixels", because this doesn't even work if you draw on an empty layer.
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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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Isn't there a way to subtract areas you don't want the content-aare fill tool to read? For ex., I want to extend an image and only fill using the background of an image... not the object in the foreground. Is there a way to tell it to not look at certain pixels so it will only gab the background pixels to fill with?
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Great idea that I can definitely apply to some video that has a similar (set of!) problems. Thanks Karl!

Recommend an image editor that has a magic wand tool to delete white background and save as PNG with transparency

Hi Everybody,
I need an iPad app that can open an image and has a Magic Wand-type tool so I can select white background around a subject. Then delete the white areas so it becomes transparent. Then save as a PNG with transparency. I've tried Pixelmator...I can select the white but I can not delete the white. I downloaded Photoshop Express...no magic wand tool.
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Gary

It's a shame you don't have Mac. The feature is built in the system (in Preview, Pages, etc).
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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

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Magic wand tool that will select broken-line shapes?

I'm an illustrator... working in both digital & real artwork.
I work mostly in Photoshop CS, but I have been searching for a solution to a digital problem that I can't quite seem to find using either Photoshop or Illustrator.
What I wish to do is scan a pencil drawing and then create selected shapes in a quick and easy method using a magic wand tool.
But it needs to be a magic wand tool that will select an area drawn from a series of broken lines. Photoshop will only select shapes that are 100% intact, so I wind up having to spend lots of time searching to repair broken lines before Photoshop selects just that one area.
I KNOW that such a program exists... because I recall there used to be such a program. It was a free dowloaded program that I got once, way back around 1998. I think it came from Australia... and it was a basic digital paint program of some sort. I can't recall the name.
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Gerno
I doubt that I will get to trying the proposed method on that sample image this weekend. I can make a few quick comments, however.
Like numerous Photoshop tools, the success of Illustrator tools like Live Trace and Live Paint are very image dependent and some experience helps. Here are some comment on the three steps needed.
First, the Live Trace step must be done well. There are a boat load of parameters for this process. For the subject image my guess would be to start with a preset and the one I would choose would be comic art.
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>That's why I think Adobe ought to work on designing a 'smart magic wand tool'... that could select imperfectly closed shapes.
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