Fix backgrounds in Photoshop

When you need to repair or extend your background (or remove your subject) Adobe Photohsop has an incredible tool called the Content Aware fill. However, if you don't know how to "train" it, you may end up with messy results. Follow Moovieboy in this tutorial to learn how best to use this technique.

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[lovesickfungus]

For anyone confused to invert the layer mask, its ctrl + I on windows and command + I

[carloskuan]

Trying to delete some annoying crap on a photo for a few days with different techniques. Finally this one made it through. Thanks a lot.

[traceysdiynetwork]

Great video! Perfect for what I needed. Thank you so much!!!

[blackangel]

this is the best photoshop tutorial I've ever watched! thank youuu

[balamina]

Thank you for the helpful tutorial, I expected that you would explain about the floor part as well. Good luck!

[teddygustave]

I feel like this video is an unfinished product, you did all that but didn't show us how to make a finish product. once I fill in the content how do I fine tune the edge of the subject to make the person blend with the background.

[Mondafoto]

Thanks for this! I now have the "Select selectthefabric!" jingle in my head. :-) Easy to follow, hoping when I actually try this that it will work as smoothly as you showed it!

[ricardoandrestudios]

this way easy to follw, but I feel incomplete. I still have some background around my subjest, as do you in your tutorial..how do I blend itÉ

[kellypeters]

Great tutorial! I'm lost after you've inverted and you're trying to select using the rectangle tool, I can select easy enough but when I hit delete (MacBook backspace keyboard button), it deletes the mask from my subject in the middle so I'm left with the background I wanted to get rid of and I've lost some of my initial mask, in your example it would now be showing the model's legs which you previously cut out. Sorry I'm learning - thanks again!

[BallerinaBadass]

Love it - very helpful AND funny. Can't wait to see what the design geeks think!

[elisabethashlieghphotograp]

I would love to know how you did the invert of the background after the quick selection. I assume since the mouse did not move that you used a keystroke but can find zero help on how to complete that

[isaacrurengo]

I love you moovieboy. If you run for office you have my vote and I don't care for your policies.

[ngoanhkhoi]

I love your voice and the way you show everybody tutorial.. just relax and funny

[carolinarevertera]

thank you very much for the video!! it really helped me a lot! I have one question: I'd like to add more background, so making the image bigger than it actually is. how would I do that with the content aware filling?

[zozonicoco]

How are you selecting multiple areas at once with the marquee tool?

[aploex]

super handy! However i've run into a few challenges where the expanded selection of the model/foreground layer, does not blend in with the corrected background layer. I'm always left with this border outline that I either need to go back and mask out, or wand select to delete. Am I missing a step somewhere?

[dandavis]

Nice explanation of content aware and masking out the sections you do not want the tool to consider. Easy and effective.

[willperalta]

Thanks so much! This video is a life saver! 🙏

[suzannes]

I don't understand the part where you 'invert' the layer
- mine doesn't come out like yours -

[snapsybox]

Thank you so much for this video! For some reason, when I follow your steps to select my subject and remove her from my background - she doesn't disappear! When I look at the layer thumbnails on the right, they look like yours... but on my main screen she's still there! What am I missing!? Thank you SO much for any advice you can give.