Graphics Programs Reference
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Step Five:
Content-Aware Fill is pretty amazing
when it works, but like any other tool in
Photoshop, it doesn't work 100% of the
time on every single type of photo and
every situation. When I use Content-
Aware Fill, I usually wind up using the
Spot Healing Brush along with it, be-
cause it has Content-Aware healing built
in. In Photoshop CS6, the Patch tool (the
Healing Brush's cousin that works better
for removing large objects) also has Con-
tent-Aware capabilities now. Let's open
another image (this motocross shot) and
use all of these tools together to remove
the rider in the background, along with all
the power lines, light poles, and the signs
in the lower-left side of the image.
Step Six:
A lot of times you don't have to do as
accurate a selection as we just did when
removing the tourist in the previous proj-
ect. For the rider in the background, just
take the regular ol' Lasso tool (L), draw a
loose selection around him and his bike
(as shown here), then go under the Edit
menu and choose Fill. When the Fill dia-
log comes up, make sure Content-Aware
is selected in the Use pop-up menu, then
click OK, and press Command-D (PC:
Ctrl-D) to deselect (you'll see in the next
step that the rider and his bike are gone,
and it did a great job of filling in the trees
and dirt hill behind him).
