From the course: Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects
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Removing objects with Content-Aware Fill
From the course: Documentary Photo Techniques with Photoshop and After Effects
Removing objects with Content-Aware Fill
- Let's use Content Aware Fill to fill in some empty area and to remove an object. Content Aware Fill will analyze the surrounding pixels and generate new ones. In this case, I have an empty area. I can command click to load the pixels and then choose Select, Inverse. And you see the missing pixels are chosen. Let's expand that a little bit, Select, Modify, Expand, and I'll expand by 30 pixels. That bleeds into the edge a little bit. Now I could choose Edit, Fill, and Use Content Aware. What it's going to do is analyze that and create new pixels, filling it in. That did a nice job. Now I just want to remove an object. So I can lasso around these tree branches here, and choose Edit, Fill, and again, use Content Aware. And it generates new pixels. You can run that multiple times and each time you run it, it will do it again, creating all new pixels. So if you don't like the results, you can try a few times. Select, shift delete, Content Aware. Want to get rid of this little secondary…
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