Content aware leaving outline

I used content aware on a bag on the forground of a picture. Worked ok, but left an outline. I got rid of that ok with healing and clone.
But some wirse in sky, it's leaving an outline that is no better than the wires themselves. any tips? thanks.
CS5

In my experience
kevin4545 wrote:
I used content aware on a bag on the forground of a picture. Worked ok, but left an outline. I got rid of that ok with healing and clone.
But some wirse in sky, it's leaving an outline that is no better than the wires themselves. any tips? thanks.
CS5
In my experience you get an outline when
a) the selection is not large enough, and/or
b) the feathering value is too small.
I get rid of such outlines by
a) increasing the selection by let's say 5 pixels (>Selection >Modify >Enlarge) but the amount is dependant on how big your selection is in relation to the image, and I migh tincrease the selection by 10 pixels if necessary;
b) increase feathering to maybe 5 pixels.
You have to play around with these values a bit. These are not hard rules; every image is different. With time you will know intuitively which values to choose.
But sometimes you can't avoid to clean up with the clone tool afterward.

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I used quick selection tool to select this section of the brown sheet. If I try to use content aware it doesnt get the correct background.
And how should the function be aware that the wall is the content you want instead of the content that actually borders the selection (the sweaters for example)?
In my opinion you are not using the tools best fitted to the task.
I’d recommend
• lifting part of the wall on a Layer of its own
• putting that in a Group with a Layer Mask that combines the brown textile and the white wall
• moving the Layer into position to cover the textile and more or less match up with the wall
• applying a Layer Mask to the Layer, too, and painting it in in the lower part with white
• if necessary using a Clipping Masked Curves Layer to adjust the brightness
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I put up a link yesterday that will give you a workaround. Check out page 4 from this link.
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I have tried it in CS6, and unless I have miissed something, you'll need a workaround for the workaround
So select the Patch tool, and set it to Normal (not Content Aware) Set it Destination, and make sure Transparent is unchecked.
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It offers various choices, including an "Automatic" mode that almost always makes distorted things look better without taking the corrections to extremes. It actually works pretty well. Some screen grabs to illustrate...
A photo taken with an extreme wide angle lens in a hotel.
Off: As shot, with no correction
Auto: Balanced perspective correction to make things look better without going to extremes.
Vertical: Make all converging lines absolutely vertical, even to the point where the image does not fit within the frame. Note that the Transform controls can be used to make it fit at the loss of more of the image. Also note that if it doesn't fit, the image is opened as a layer with transparency in the place where we see the checkered background in the preview, so conceivably you could use Content Aware Fill or cloning to fill it in.
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As shot:
Auto:
Horizontal only:
Vertical Only:
Vertical with some added distortion to fit the frame:
Full Horizontal and Vertical:
Horizontal and Vertical, plus negative scaling so you can easily see how the image has been distorted:
I toyed with the idea of making the [A] (Auto) my Camera Raw default, and that has merit as it really does improve most photos. It will, for example, level most horizons (especially water). But in the end I chose to leave it off and just know it's there so that if I have a troublesome image I can get a quick correction by clicking one of the buttons.
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You might also try this downloadable installer for the Camera Raw plug-in:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html

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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.
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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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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.
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CS6 content aware fill and spot healing smudge

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.
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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.
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Selby

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.
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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?
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Hello,
I hope this is possible because it works really well on still frames but how would I go about applying content aware scaling to a video layer inside PS? Basically I'm trying to use this feature to fake an aspect ratio change where by I have a subject surrounded by a relatively uniform background and I would like to be able to create a protection mask as an alpha layer and have photoshop apply the content aware scaling only to the background(to fill in the empty parts of the rescaled video) and leave the subject untouched.
What I've done is opened a video in photoshop as a layer, created an alpha channel to represent the subject(subject is white, background is black on the created alpha channel), changed the canvas size to the new aspect ratio which obviously created a tranparent frame around the original video frame. I then tried to apply content aware scaling to the video, it converted the layer to a smart object then displayed the free transform handles. However, when I selected my alpha channel as the protection area, the content aware scaling seemed to ignore it and went on to distort the entire frame. Now I tried this with still frame from the same video with the same mask/alpha channel and it worked as expected just didn't seem to do it with video.
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No that's not what I was trying to do, I mask the central subject of my frame and as I said it was surrounded by a fairly uniform background(main subject is a rock formation in the middle of the ocean) I want to change the aspect ratio of that frame, so I created an alpha mask to cover the main subject, the surrounding background was not covered in this alpha channel mask. This way when I scale using the content aware feature all that happens is the background(the water) is streteched evenly with lesser distorion(than normal scaling) while the masked main subject is "avoided" with completely no distrotion. I think the key point you missed in my description is that I am in fact creating an alpha matte for only my subject not the entire frame and using that in the "protect" option of content aware scaling.
The result is essentially a frame aspect ratio change that does not sacrifice the resolution around the main subject(because the main subject remains of the same size and PS doesn't have to interpolate any pixels...this is obviously is not the same as just resizng and cropping where the subject and background are streched evenly to fill an essentially larger area of the screen causing "softness"). The result using this method is also much more predictable from frame to frame than content aware filling because it's taking information from the current frame and using is to fill the empty background resulting from the aspect ratio change. I know this works because I tried it on individual still frames from the video then compiled them back in on AfterEffects...thats not my problem. My problem is when you try to natively try to do this inside PS on a video layer(rather than a still frame) it doesn't work and I'm not sure if this is a bug or if video content aware streching is just not supported.I have CS6 Production Premium.

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Hello,
I''m new to photoshop and i noticed the new version uses this great technique of content aware scale but i can't get to make it work on a picture i would like to use. I saw a couple of tutorials but the images they use seem a bit simple and i would love to learn how to use it on complex ones.
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/30prku
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The entire content of the image just won't fit under circumstances most people consider acceptable - i.e., with the original aspect ratio yielding reasonable looking results.
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-Noel

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