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Using Content-Aware Fill to fill in missing areas

Using Content-Aware Fill to fill in missing areas - Lightroom Tutorial

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Using Content-Aware Fill to fill in missing areas

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- When you end up with missing pixels, content-aware fill is a nice way to quickly fill those in. We can use tools like clone-stamp later, but content-aware fill is going to analyze the areas and try to generate new pixels based upon a certain sample. In this case, it's simple. I hold down the command or control key and click to load the layer. Now let's choose select inverse to choose the mixing pixels and we'll expand that just a little bit so there's some bleed through. Now you see we've got the missing area targeted. I can choose edit, content-aware fill, and this brings up a newer dialog box that's very accurate. It allows you to choose where you sample from. So what we're going to do here is start to fill in things. Using a handtool, I'm going to go through and remove things that I don't want to be considered for the content-aware fill like the people. That will help increase the accuracy of the new pixels. This way it only analyzes non-people and focuses on the textures. I can…

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