Content aware fill on edge of photo

Hi,
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

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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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R_Kelly, Sorry I am late in getting back with you, have been out of town on business. I think I found out what I was doing wrong. I created a duplicte background layer and had not check off sample both layers. Corrected this and my problem has gone away.
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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.

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

I know you can remove logo in photos using content aware fill, but you can't do it to a video clip. You can only do it to a frame, but you can't apply it to the entire video. I know photoshop is not a video editing software, but having this sort of feature makes sense for photoshop users especially with content aware fill.

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

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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:

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 functionality in PSE 9

The press release for PSE 9 states "the Content Aware Fill technology introduced with Photoshop CS5 is one of our most exciting innovations ever, so we’re thrilled to be able to make it accessible to photo and video enthusiasts in this latest Elements release" and that "the content intelligence in the Spot Healing Brush" has been "adapted from Photoshop CS5’s celebrated Content Aware Fill feature".
In what way does this functionality as implemented in PSE 9 differ from that in PS CS5? Clearly it's not the same functionality otherwise the press release and product description would say so. Has it been crippled in any significant way or just implemented differently?
This feature is the only reason I would upgrade to PSE 9. Can anyone with direct experience please confirm whether or not I would be disappointed?

You know, I completely forgot that there's a free action you can download that will enable the content-aware patching:
http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60535&page=6
(link in DAK's post).

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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

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/

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
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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.

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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".
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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

White lines using Quick Selection Tool in conjunction with the Content Aware Fill.

When using quick selection tool in conjunction with the content aware fill i get a white line where the image join is.
How do i stop this from happening?
Basically, i need the select tool to 'over select' into the next photo so its a seamless fills.
This isn't a complex seletion, its a photomerge with blank, white areas that i am filling in using content away fill.

thanks for your help.

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.

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