CS5 content aware

When I select a region, hit delete, then use the content aware fill, it doesnt give clean results. It picks up material from the region surronding the selection. It's sort of like when you use the clone stamp and the stamp picks up stuff from the surrounding region. How do I get clean fills?

If you want a "clean" fill (as in blank), Content Aware Fill is the last thing you want to use.
If you DO want textures made up, where do you expect it to get them?  From another image?  Perhaps you have a misconception about what Content Aware Fill is supposed to do...
Content Aware Fill is not magic, just good for saving some time - sometimes.  It works better on some images than others.
-Noel

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    Demos of the new Photoshop CS5 "content aware fill" feature on the Youtubes -- it looks impressive. 
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    This is looking like an advanced "must-have" type of feature so my guess is Adobe will keep it at the premium Photoshop level at least until CS6.
    Note that Content Aware Scaling was introduced in Photoshop CS4, which came out at around the same time as Photoshop Elements 7 in the autumn of 2008 - but this other related feature wasn't added to Photoshop Elements 8 last fall.  Just a possible analogy.

  • 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.

  • Help CS5 content aware healing brush

    Sorry for the dumb question folks. I just upgraded and when I click on my healing brush, I do not have a Content Aware option. What am I doing wrong. The porgram defaults to asking me to option click to determine what to use. I am running CS5 on and Imac.
    Thanks for the help.

    The content aware option is for the spot healing brush, not the healing brush.

  • CS5 content aware move

    I am using cs5 extended for MAC.  I am attempting to move an object by using content aware move feature.  When I open the "Fill" box (Edit>Fill), the command for content aware is dimmed and not usable.  What is the fix?

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  • 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?
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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:
      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.
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       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
       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.      
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    Bottom line: wait a few months till the regular public and users start posting.
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  • CS5: Content Aware Scale vs Image Size

    Can someone explain the difference between the outcome of using the new content aware scale versus just going ahead and resizing the image? Or is this a matter of preference? Thanks!

    Hi,
    Content aware scale is not so much about resizing an image as much as it is about extending an image. It allows you to stretch the existing pixels along a single axis without distorting (or with less distorting) of the subject or subjects of the image.
    In this first photo is the original and the area that needs to be filled with image data to the right.
    In this 2nd image I just scaled the image up to fill. As you can see, I've lost a lot of the image as I'm basically cropping it as I scale it up along both the x axis and the y axis.
    If I try to just scale the image along the x-axis the image will distort. The ship and the bathers get wider.
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    Michael
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  • Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5.5 has quit working

    Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5.5 has quit. Was working just fine now nothing happens.

    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

  • 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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      Select layer “Layer 1”
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       Source: layer “Layer 1”
       Location: 1299 pixels, 879 pixels
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  • I have CS5 design premium student and teacher edition, have never been able to receive any updates. And cannot find cetain features like Content Aware, Adobe Watermarks etc...Is there any way I can add these and other features

    I have never been able to receive any updates. And cannot find cetain features like Content Aware, Adobe Watermarks etc...Is there any way I can add these and other features unavailable to me? Or do I have to upgrade the version I have? If so, how much would that be?

    The only "content aware" feature in CS5 is the fill, so you are not missing anything with the updates because nothing more is there. And I honestly don't know what you mean by "Adobe watermarks" there is no such thing, but there is a series of scripts for such stuff.
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  • CS5 trial issues with ram and content aware issues.

    I run a vista 32 machine with 4 gigs.  I have tried just about everything including running the machine in minmum and loading only windows and adobe CS5.  I still get the error of "Could not fill because there is not enough memory (RAM)".  I have tried playing with the performce settings and GL settings to give adobe as much memory as it needed but it is still not working.
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    Hi again everyone. I tried the original solution of turning off OpenGl support in preferances and that worked for me. Granted there are still some problems.
    To recap:
        I have an Intel Core i7 processor with 4GB RAM and Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit (didn't want to go down the 64bit route for compatability issues with other programs). Because Adobe do not support the Canon EOS 5D Mk II in CS3's camera RAW I upgraded to CS4 (that's were things began to become unstable). CS4 was flakey at best. Nice new feel (when it worked). Now I am no dummy when it comes to computers (I run my own IT company as well as photographic business - they kinda compliment each other). After loading CS5 (mainly for content aware feature and hoping it was a bit better than CS4 turned out to be - like most of you on this forum) the neat feature that Adobe had been raving about didn't work as advertised.
    Back to where I am up to now. I will not turn this into a Mac vs PC debate since we have aldready had earlier, someone with a "brand new MacBook Pro" complaining of the same issue. I can state that, of all the systems I work on with Windows 7 (which is alot), the only one I am having major issues with is my own. And the only piece of software giving me grief (if you saw my two screens you would have trouble counting the apps on my system), is Photoshop CS5! After turning off OpenGL I can now stitch 12 or more RAW 5D MarkII photos with no problem, generating a file 938MB in size. The first time I did this I still had to original files open and it would not let me do any content aware modifications. Fair enough. I closed all the source files, flattened the layers to produce a single flat layer to work with and then tried content aware. "Not enough memory". I had to bring the file down in size to under 50MB to get it to work on any decent sized area. Now I don't want to have to go out and buy "Blow up" to renlarge my photos because Adobe can not get their memory management working! Lets be clear about this. This is not a Windows problem. Photoshop assigns its own memory, its own scratch disk and interfaces with the Graphics card. So if I assign 1.5GB of memory to Photoshop, 400GB as a scatch disk and have 1GB of video memory why does it still have issues with a 50MB file!!!! Piss poor programming!
    Here are my issues. I was sold on CS5 due to a brilliant (if not misleading video) that showed "content aware" at work on Adobe's web site. There was no mention that I would need a super computer or 64bit operating system to work its magic. On purchasing the product as so many of you have discovered it does not work as promissed. In two days of posting to this site I have not seen one representative of Adobe making any comment as to even if they are working on this issue.
    Please ADOBE, you big multinational software company, PLEASE make us feel better for having purchased CS5 and not let it be the big white lemon it seems to be.

  • Healing brush is not showing content-aware selection in CS5

    Help. The healing brush is no longer showing the content-aware selection in CS5. What is wrong here? Have I changed a setting that I am too inexperienced to know about?

    Well, duh! I thought I had done that. Thank you very much. I feel a bit embarrassed to be so inept.

  • Can't get Content Aware Fill in CS5 to work as advertised in many tutorials...

    I have tried unsuccessfully to get Content Aware Fill in CS5 to work as advertised in the dozens of tutorials I have watched.  I have used many of the techniques, but unless the background is a simple one, CAF seems to drag in stuff from all over (even if I protect it in a mask) the background.  Is there some special trick I am not aware of?

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  • Content Aware Turned Off CS5

    I changed my setting for when I select an area and "DELETE" so that now the box that used to come up with an option for content aware, white, delete, etc no longer comes up.  Now when I hit "DELETE" it simply wipes out the area that was selected.  I am now unable to select content aware since the dialog box does not appear.  Is there anywhere I can reenable this option?  Thanks.

    I think this is way it should work with selections.
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       (background with a little lock symbol to the right).
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    2. If you change the background to a layer, such as layer 1,
        then the delete key will delete the pixels in your selection.
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        If you choose another layer, the delete key would delete pixels in your selection.
    4. If you want the fill dialog on other layers (selection active), press Shift+Backspace
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  • Content Aware Fill in CS5

    According to a Russell Brown tutorial:    Select an area, key Shift + Delete, and the Content Aware Fill dialog opens; but I don't get the Content Aware Fill dialog.     It just clears/cuts the selected area as in previous versions.
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    Photoshop Help indicated that EDIT/FILL must be selected, and that worked.  
    Doesn't say anything about SHIFT/DELETE.  Am I missing something here?
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