How to Use Content Aware Fill in Photoshop

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How to Use Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop

Content-Aware fill is a simple way to remove objects from your images. Learn how to remove anything from a photo in a couple of simple steps!

What is Content-Aware Fill?

Content-Aware Fill is located in the Fill dialog ‘Edit - Fill’. Content-Aware fill works by analyzing a photo and filling in a selected area with similar texture and color from the rest of the image.

How to Remove Objects

To remove an object from your photo using Content-Aware Fill, create a duplicate of the background layer by dragging it onto the new layer icon.

Next, select the object you would like to remove using any selection tool. In this example, we use the lasso tool to make a rough selection around the dog in the image. Once selected, go to ‘Edit- Fill’ and choose ‘Content-Aware’ from the drop-down menu.

That's it! whatever you selected should be gone! If the tool doesn’t do a perfect job, make a new selection and try it again - often times it will do better the second time.

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[phlearn]

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[repomanband]

Just what I needed for my band photo... hey this still works after almost 6 years!

[whoartthou]

This video could have had half the time and content and it would have been all the pertinent info you need. Skip to 3:35. Short handed : create background copy, use selector of preference on content and use fill > content aware

[IrvinEsmabe]

I just want to thank PHLEARN for their very helpful videos! Thumbs-up!

[isaiahfarley]

This was a great video!!!! Keep up the great work dude!!!! Love from

[Siafk]

I love modern software. Keeps blowing my mind

Thanks for the tutorial

[ManojPatel-oozd]

Thank you, you made it look so easy. I love your style of presentation

[Dangit-Dave]

I like how you added the recap at the end of the video. great tutorial as always!

[unityelt]

Hour videos are always so useful. Thank you.

[ficheye]

I've watched two videos concerning the content aware tool. The content aware tool is an 'automatic sampler', so it can replace an area as shown in this video. But if you wanted to stretch out that landscape you would use the content aware tool by selecting it from the menu, then select the entire image. The content aware function senses large objects, in my case a tree by a house on an open landscape. I was able to stretch the image quite a bit before it finally started stretching the tree and house. Then just back up a bit. And even better... when you deselect the image, save, and then select it again, you can repeat this process. It truly seems like magic.

[KnownotProductions]

I keep hearing "Content Aware Phil". Like there is some guy there who is aware of the content around him.

[f_alves]

Probably there's someone out there better than you at PS, but by this time and searching for references on youtube you're are simply the best!!!! Man, you work like Grand master on it. thanks for all your knowledge shared here!!!!

[Sleepdroidstudios]

I use that tool all the time. It does grab some things to put in there that I don't want, but overall it really does well. Great video. You just helped a ton of people with this one. So much faster than rubber stamping.

[hellodaio]

this helped me a lot. thank you so so much!

[davedee]

Quick tip
If you want to do this feature with a larger area or over text, simply make your selection then "select > modify > expand" I use 4 pixles maximum
This will expand your selection out and enable a cleaner dissolve since the selection is not right up against the border of what you are doing.

[MichaelSutton]

Awesome tutorial, I've been scratching my head over this now simple​ tool all morning, thanks for an awesome tutorial.

[JaRuggierojr]

Nice video. I really like these short clips.

[sarahgreenup]

Thank you for all of the wonderful instruction on CC!

[TheTonyayoung]

I can't say "Thank you" enough!

[fhua]

Great for adding bleed to scanned illustrations. Thanks!