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Using Content-Aware Fill with video

Using Content-Aware Fill with video

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Using Content-Aware Fill with video

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- Photoshop offers an exciting piece of technology called content aware fill. It analyzes surrounding pixels, and then based on a selection, creates new pixels to fill them in. Now this technology isn't designed to work with video, per se, but you can use it to create freeze frames that are masked and placed above, to cover up problem objects. Hopefully in the future, Adobe will continue to look to expand this technology to more media types, but it's very processor intensive, so they haven't done so yet for video. Alright, let's select the video group here, and I'll click to add a new layer, it places it above. You can drag that out to match the duration. What I want to do now is make a basic selection. So I'll choose the quick selection tool, and I'm going to make a selection over here of the tree. Now before I do that, let's make sure we have some pixels to work with. I'll choose select all, and then edit, copy merged. That places a still frame on the clipboard. With layer two…

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