Content Aware on Panorama

I was very excited to see the content-aware sneak peek video, where Photoshop automatically filled in the edges of the panorama photo by just selecting the empty space. I was very anxious to give it a go, but was disappointed with the results, or lack thereof.
I stitched together 7 photos that I took and merged the layers. I had to merge the layers because it would not allow me to use the magic wand tool when there were 7 linked layers. When I select the empty space and press delete, nothing happens.
I have noticed if I "Layer by Copy" on other pictures, content-aware doesn't come up as an option on the copied layer. So, I'm guessing my problem with the panoramic picture is that I merged the layers?
Does anyone have ay suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? He makes it look soo easy in the video.
Thanks!

Layer-Flatten to "merge the layers", select the edges, then use the Delete key. The key here is for the image to be the Background layer. Upon pressing the Delete key it will pop up a menu asking you how you want to fill the parts you have selected, with Content Aware being the default.
You can also bring up the fill dialog when deleting on a bona fide layer by pressing Shift + Backspace (i.e., the Delete key at the upper-right of the main part of your keyboard).
-Noel

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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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Content Aware Fill doesn't work on large images

When stitching together a large panorama, the content aware tool doesn't work if the image is >30,000 pixels. When you use the tool on large images (after I have flattened the layers and using the magic wand to select a white area at the top), it runs through the process as if it is going to fill and then after the "fill" window completes, the selected area remains white.
I noticed on some other forum posts that jpg saving couldn't occur on >30,000 pixel width images, so I changed the image size to 29,999 (from ~39,000) and the content fill tool worked.
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I found that I could get around this problem by doing sections instead of a complete linear fill (when you do panoramas, you tend to have a long white area on the top and bottom of the image - this is what I have been working with).
The downside with working in sections is you get some pattern matching issues so you have to go and do spot work until it looks the way you want.
Another interesting artifact from doing long linear sections is you have an edge (a line) between the fill and the original image. To remove this, I zoom very close and use the lasso tool to select only that line. Using the content fill tool to fix this is a very easy, clean solution.

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--"not enough memory"

After watching a video on Adobe's site about using the new "Content aware fill" tool in CS5, I am attempting to fill the blank space left when merging five images to make a panorama. The resulting file, after flattening, is 296M. When I select the blank area around the image and attemp to content fill, it begins work and then stops about halfway through with this message, "Could not fill because there is not enough memory (RAM)".
I'm running a MacPro (3,1) with OS 10.6.3, with 26 GB RAM. Photoshop recognizes all the RAM, and I have dedicated 22 GB just for Photoshop. Surely this is enough RAM for just about any operation one can attempt in Photoshop. PS is running in 64 bit, too. Any help on this issue would be very much appreciated.

Murph my first thought on this is there might be something else runniing that is eating up your memory.
I'm running a Mac Pro 2008 with 24GB rams with 70% or just over 16GB available and have had
no issues doing the same thing you are attempting on tiff images that are 1.4GB in size.
Check your activity monitor and see what's running and how much memory is being used by other
processes.

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
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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.

Content Aware Scaling and not enough RAM

I'm on a mac book pro that i bought october 2008 with 4 Gb RAM, with a 2.8 GHz Intel core 2 duo processor. I run content aware scaling on a file make my adjustments, click return and get the warning dialogue: “Could not complete your request because there is not enough memory (RAM).”
In earlier adobe forums people have talked about CAScaling not working well with Bigger tiles plug in activated. as far as I can see I do not even have that plug in. I go to apps>PS CS4 >plug-ins > extentions -- and it's not there -- I see plug ins for AltiVecCore, Enable Async IO, FastCore MMXCore, Multi Processor Support. PPCCore, and scripting support -- but not a Bigger tiles plug in which I still have in my previous copy of CS3 -- but not CS4.
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owen

I think I discovered the source of my problem -- doing too many things at once -- I did however , as you suggested, Buko, allot 90% of my RAM to photoshop. My image was a panorama made from seven RAW files shot with my Canon G-10 -- about 15 inches by 63 inches @ 240 ppi. I first stitched them together out of Lightroom -- no problem. But of course the edges were rounded, and I wanted to stretch my sky and foreground to fill the image rectangle without any apparent distortion. I figured CAS was perfect for this... and so it is, once I figured things out.
It is now my intent to stitch the pano every way possible in CS4 and see which one looks best in this particular instance. I may have multiple favorite methodologies, and discover which procedure fits what kind of situation best. My problem, I think, was that in applying the CA scaling transformation, I pulled on all four sides of the image - not just one. But PS and CAS worked just fine if I transformed each edge or side separately. Perhaps it works fine pulling and transforming on all sides if I'm on an 8 core mac pro tower with 16 gigs of RAM -- we'll see -- but for now -- I'll try it separately with each edge @ 100% RAM allowance -- to see if that had anything to do with my problem -- otherwise I'll keep it in the optimum range, and transform one side at a time.
For me this file was a test -- I have a panorama of an image looking over the rooftops of Siena, Italy to print next, made from 17 frames from my 5D mark 2 and that file is 3.3 Gb and took my little laptop over an hour to render as a pano -- but it did-- ( thank you apple -- thank you Intel, thank you Mr Knoll & co...) and will need some stretching to fill the frame -- one side at a time - I suspect.
So merci beaucoup, Buko!
... and thanks Mr Schewe for the the tip, doode -- you know what I'm talking about. ;^) and thanks to the engineers and geniuses at Adobe who make this magic possible.
peace,
oc

Is Content Aware available in PSE10?

Is Content Aware Available in Photoshop Elements 10
Message title was edited by: Brett N

Content-Aware is available in Photoshop Elements 10. You don't have the same set of options as you have in Photoshop CS5 though. First, there is no Content-Aware option in Edit > Fill. But it is an option (selected by default) on the Spot Healing Brush. When you stitch together a photomerge panorama, you are given the additional option of filling in the empty outer spaces (not an option in Photoshop CS5). However, this step is memory intensive and may not work on all systems with all panoramas.

Content Aware

I want to change a Landscape into a Panoramic which is easy enough in Photoshop CC but I can.t get the Content Aware function to rescale the image.
I am working from a copy background layer and Select > All. I am on Windows 8 using Photoshop CC

You should have no problem doing what you want to do. Remember Content Aware Scale is distorting your image into a different aspect ratio where the aware part come is is object the can be automatically identified and those selected by the user are protected and will not distorted. If nothing can be identified everthing will distort. Also if the aspect ratio change is large the distortion done may not be acceptable to you. You want to make a landscape a pano. To do that you have two choice change the aspect ratio by making the existing height smaller or by adding canvas to to the sides. Here I captured a Photoshop screen where I duped the background layer added canvas then used content aware scale in the duped layer.

Is there a way to do a content-aware rotation?

I have some objects in the edge of a wide-angle shot and there is the expected distortion. The b/g is pretty simple and instead of losing the space from fixing distortion, a content-aware rotation would be ideal. Is there a mechanism for this? There is move and scale, but not rotation, it seems.

I put up a link yesterday that will give you a workaround. Check out page 4 from this link.
http://www.pixelgenius.com/tips/evening-healing.pdf
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.
Select your source pixels, and copy to a new layer, (this step is optional - will discuss later)
Select the BG layer, and with your selection still active (if it turned off when you copied to new layer, Ctrl/Cmd the new layer to reload the selection)
Ctrl/Cmd T to bring up Free Transform
Move to the new location, and rotate; change size, whatever, and hit Enter.
Nudge the selection a tiny bit which will activate the Patch and blend in new location.
This has made a copy or the source pixels, so if you want rid, turn off the new layer, select and expand the white hole it leaves, and use CA Fill to fix.

Photoshop CS5 content-aware scale

Hi, I'm a photoshop CS5.1 64 bits user, I'm following the "Learn adobe photoshop CS5 by video" with the instructor Kelly McCathran. Well, I need to know how to create two layers with different sizes to apply content-aware scale...I can't! I import a picture (4000x3000) from adobe bridge...When I create a layer with a different dimension (3000x2000) the picture (4000x3000) turns to (3000x2000)!!! What am I supposed to do?

With the smaller image appearing with the larger one in Photoshop, click on the smaller image in its Layers panel and drag it over the larger image.
Once the smaller image is sitting on top of the larger one in the Layers panel, you can change the size of the smaller image by using Edit > Transform > Scale.
Hold down the Shift key as you alter the scale, the image maintains proportion.

"Upright" Content Awareness in Camera Raw 8 / Photoshop CC

One of the new features in Camera Raw 8, which will ship with Photoshop CC, is the ability for the software to "see" converging lines in your image and try to straighten things up for you, compensating for perspective issues / wide angle lenses, etc.
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:
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I'd say this feature is pretty slick.
-Noel

You might also try this downloadable installer for the Camera Raw plug-in:
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Was it suppose to be in the final release of Photoshop CS6?
If you go to this link http://www.practicalphotoshopmag.com/2012/04/01/photoshop-cs6-to-feature-content-aware-age -tool/
It states it was on beta version of Photoshop CS6 but no one have a video of it. Or maybe it was for future release like CS6.1 or CS7. I hope Adobe can add this useful feature on final version of CS6.

Yeah, and what about the "Clooning" and "Helen" tools mentioned in the same article?!?!?!
No "Clooning" and "Helen" tools, no upgrade for me matey!!!

Using the content aware move tool, I want to move an item from one image to another image but it does not seem to work. I think I need two layers on one document so how do I do this

Using the content aware move tool, I want to move an item from one image to another image but it does not seem to work. I think I need two layers on one document so how do I do this

Good day!
A simple Paste does not work for you?
It should place the clipboard content as a new Layer which you can then move around.
If there is any chance that the elements need to be scaled, rotated etc. I would prefer to place them as Smart Objects (File > Place …) and do the masking that is specific to the images themselves in those.
Regards,
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How to create a 'Previous History' brush tool along with content aware

Truly did not know how to create a good title here.
When you use the 'Content Aware' tool and move subject 'A' to point B what happens is that A now sits on top of B which in turn means part of the image within B may be missing and you may still want it there where it was and where it should be. You could use the 'history brush' tool to brush away part of the new insert and erase what is there to reveveal what was there. How do you do the same thing to image A which now sits on B (to reveal what was there on A originally). What I mean is this. I moved a person from point A to point B. but parts of this person are missing (his ear, his knee, his shoe) so how do I get those parts back (in the new location)?
The history brush tool appears to be erasing by subtracting, what I would like to do in this case of course is not subtract but add or 're-add'.
Thank you

Hello,
here's a possible solution, before using content aware, take a snapshot of A and B, then use it as your history brush source whenever you need to 're-add':
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