Content-Aware Fill working poorly in CC 2014

Content-Aware Fill does a very poor job in CC 2014. Color is off, density is off, texture is off. Is anyone else having this problem?
I had to switch back to the last version of CC in order to work on my current project.

Ziggysphoto wrote:
I use CAF a lot and it works ok. Is your machine good enough. I have PC with windows 7
I have absolutely no idea why you are addressing your reply to me, Ziggy,
Besides, it's a non sequitur. Having a "PC with Windows 7" is no indication of having a good machine, not even a poor machine. It tells us nothing.

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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:
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a. The eyedropper be used to sample a colour.
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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.

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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

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.
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-Noel

Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5.5 has quit working

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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

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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?
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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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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.
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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
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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)
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You can read more at http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60535&page=20
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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.
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Content aware not working

HI all I've got a copy of CS5 extended and for somereason content aware is no longer working.
here is an example:
To the left you can see the white area I am trying to fill, so I realise this is a big area and select only a portion, making sure I've got enough of the sky to make a good copy and then go shift backspace or edit>fill and get up the content aware dialogue.
And up comes the dialogue box, I press ok and nothing happens?
Anyway know what this is about. I can go in and clone it but this seems wierd.
Thanks
Sj

It's not a good sign, when something doesn't work then does after restarting the app. It's possible the panorama stitching process left some corruption in memory or used up some resources that were needed for Content Aware Fill to work.
These latest "gee whiz" features Adobe has added to Photoshop always seem a little less stable to me than the rest of the product. In some cases I know they're packages they purchased, rather than engineered themselves, so the level of integration might be a little lower behind the scenes than with the "native" features engineered in-house. In practical terms, this means you probably want to save your work often, in several different places, and maybe even restart Photoshop after doing "big" things.
And to be fair, Photoshop relies heavily on OpenGL, and the OpenGL implementations done by the video card makers are not always perfectly stable - this can leave latent corruption in Photoshop's memory causing problems later. If you've had unexplained trouble, it's always a good idea to check to see if your video card maker has published a newer display driver for your hardware on their web site.
Do you have a lot of free space on your scratch drive? I know that the panorama stitching process can use a LOT of scratch space. I ask because running out of scratch space might cause unexpected failures.
Also, how much memory do you have, and what are your settings in Edit - Preferences - Performance?
-Noel

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?
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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

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

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