But don’t let minor imperfections stop you from taking advantage of content-aware features. You may still need to retouch manually with a Clone Stamp or Healing tool to polish off the edit. Before deselecting the area, see if Structure and Color options are available for you to adjust.If your selection is too tight you can use the Select > Modify > Expand command to spread it out a little. The selection should extend several pixels beyond the subject. Alter the original selection a little.Choose Edit > Undo and try again, because for some features such as Content-Aware Fill, Photoshop will randomly choose a different source area each time.If you see an obviously repeated area, or a synthesized object in not quite the right place, try these steps: The content-aware features in Photoshop work better with some images than others, and they don’t always produce perfect results. The icon to the right of the Protect menu is the Protect Skin Tones button.įor step-by-step details, see: Content-Aware Scaling Touching Up To prevent distortion of specific content, save a selection as an alpha channel and then choose the name of that channel from the Protect menu in the options bar. The area you originally selected is filled with the area where you dropped the selection, and Photoshop blends it with the image. If nothing’s selected yet, use the Patch tool to drag a selection around the area you want to fill, then drag and drop the selection over the area you want to use as a fill. Choose the Patch tool (grouped with the healing tools), and in the Options bar, set Patch to Content-Aware. There’s another way to control the results of Content-Aware Fill: You can choose the area to use as the source of the new fill.

After you get the result you want, you can disable or delete the layer mask.įor step-by-step details, see: Use Content-Aware, Pattern, or History fills Content-Aware Patch Photoshop will fill the deleted selection with content from the white (opaque) areas of the layer mask. Add a layer mask and paint black (transparency) into areas you don’t want Content-Aware Fill to use. If unwanted details creep into image areas filled with Content-Aware Fill, you can restrict the areas Photoshop uses as fill content. Content-Aware Fill is an option when using the Edit > Fill command.

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