Content Aware Problem

I have used content aware with some success but today I was using it to remove power lines in front of a building with a deep blue cloudless sky in the background. When I used content aware it lightened the sky to a pale blue, no where near the original color. I sampled the existing sky with the eye dropper but no change. Please advise why this is happening. I have used content aware probably 25 times and have never encountered this problem. Thank you

corsaseven77 wrote:
if you have any idea what could have happened I would love to know.
Did you miss my prior answer (post #2)?
Try making the brush bigger, or using a selection and making it larger than the power line by a few pixels.
It can work quite well; I've done it myself many times, but you can't work too tightly to the subject, because the pixels near the edge are affected by the subject sometimes more than you realize.
-Noel

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greenturtle49 wrote:
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If you hit the "Auto" button on the Options bar for the RedEye Removal tool, does it work?
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Can you manually remove the red eye in this photo?
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greenturtle49 wrote:
Issue 2 of 2 is a problem using the healing brush. I have Content Aware selected and have tried eliminating a couple of mic stands. No matter what size I make the brush, the program doesn't read anything correctly.
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greenturtle49 wrote:
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Chris:
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Ziggysphoto wrote:
I use CAF a lot and it works ok. Is your machine good enough. I have PC with windows 7
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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.
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Anyway know what this is about. I can go in and clone it but this seems wierd.
Thanks
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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

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