{"id":16226,"date":"2019-04-17T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diedruckerei.de\/magazin\/?p=16226"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:55:53","slug":"photoshop-content-aware-fill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlineprinters.ie\/magazine\/photoshop-content-aware-fill\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop Content-Aware Fill: improvements after the update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tedious manual retouch to remove unwanted content is a thing of the past. The new Photoshop version CC 2019 provides a new Content-Aware Fill workspace. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use it to eliminated undesirable content from your photos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photoshop currently provides a wide range of easy-to-handle tools to quickly edit unwanted areas of a photo. One option is to use the Content-Aware Fill function to remove an unwanted object from a photo with just a few clicks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Content-Aware Fill tool in older Photoshop versions<\/span><\/h2>\n

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The\u00a0Content-Aware Fill\u00a0function in previous Photoshop versions was already popular with users as it often delivered surprisingly good results. Removing an object from a photo was possible with a few mouse clicks. First you had to select the object using the\u00a0<\/span>Selection tool<\/span>, click\u00a0<\/span>Edit<\/span>\u00a0>\u00a0<\/span>Fill<\/span>. The\u00a0<\/span>Content-Aware<\/span>\u00a0Fill tool then automatically removed a selected area and replaced it based on the pixels around that object.<\/span><\/p>\n

In some cases, the tool did an amazing job and it was impossible to tell any difference to the original photo. In others, the results were not so great. The problem was that you couldn’t tell Photoshop which areas to sample or how to generate the fill. As a result, the selection was filled with image content that did not actually belong there. To avoid this problem, the Content-Aware Fill tool has been further enhanced in Photoshop CC 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The advantages of the new workspace<\/span><\/h2>\n

The new\u00a0Content-Aware Fill\u00a0workspace is a useful addition to the existing function. Previously, when analysing the image, Photoshop always sampled the whole image for possible source image information. This is also the reason why artefacts occurred occasionally.<\/span>
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\nThe new Content-Aware Fill function enables you to\u00a0define the areas<\/strong> which Photoshop should sample. Moreover, the areas to be used can be\u00a0scaled, rotated or mirrored automatically<\/strong>\u00a0for best results. If the result is still not ideal, you can further refine the selection using the\u00a0Color Adaptation<\/strong> option. The new workspace features a\u00a0clearly structured overview<\/strong>, showing the original image and a preview of the new image side by side.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using content-aware filling in Photoshop CC 2019:<\/span><\/h2>\n

Step 1: Select the object and open the Content-Aware Fill workspace<\/span><\/h3>\n

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In the example, we want to remove the vehicle in the street and generate a fill for the yellow road marking. First use the\u00a0<\/span>Lasso tool<\/span>\u00a0to draw a selection around the vehicle. Make sure to preserve as much as possible of the yellow road marking because this is the area you want to use for the fill later on, giving Photoshop more image data to work with. Once you have made your selection, click\u00a0<\/span>Edit<\/span>\u00a0>\u00a0<\/span>Content-Aware Fill<\/span>. The new workspace opens, showing the original photo in the left window and the edited preview in the right window.<\/span><\/p>\n

Step 2: Excluding source areas from sampling<\/span><\/h3>\n

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A green overlay covers the areas not included in your selection. Photoshop uses this area to sample pixels to generate the fill. To further enhance the street, you can remove the beach from the source. To do so, move the mouse over the section of beach, and holding down the\u00a0<\/span>left mouse button<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0draw over the area you want to remove. This works similar to the Eraser tool. Once you release the left mouse button, you will see the newly generated photo in the preview window.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each time you change the original photo, it will be resampled based on the available image information. If you have accidentally removed too much content, press the\u00a0<\/span>Alt<\/span> key, and holding down the\u00a0<\/span>left mouse button<\/span>\u00a0, move over the area you want to restore as a possible source area.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Before clicking\u00a0OK<\/span>\u00a0to confirm the workspace settings, you can choose between different output settings<\/span>. You can output<\/p>\n