Graphics Programs Reference
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Step Seven:
Take a look at where the second rider
used to be. He's outtathere! Let's switch
to the Spot Healing Brush tool
(J)
for
the light poles on the left. You literally
just make your brush size a little bigger
than a pole, paint over it, and Photoshop
uses the Content-Aware technology to
remove it. I removed the one under his
wheel first by painting right over it, and
here you can see I'm painting over the
one in the middle (when I release the
mouse button, a second later that one
will be gone, too!).
Note:
The regular
Healing Brush tool (the one where you
have to choose the area to sample from
by Option-clicking (PC: Alt-clicking) does
not
have the Content-Aware technology.
Only the Spot Healing Brush tool and the
Patch tool have it (but you have to turn it
on for the Patch tool—it's on by default
with the Spot Healing Brush).
Step Eight:
Let's use the Patch tool (press
Shift-J
until you have it), just so you can see
how it works. You use it initially just like
the Lasso tool: click-and-drag a loose
selection around the object you want to
remove (the large light pole, here), then
click your cursor inside that selected area
and drag it to a nearby clean area (you'll
see a preview inside the selected area
of what your patch will look like). Then,
when you release the mouse button,
it snaps back and the pole is removed.
I use the Patch tool for removing larger
objects like this. Also, if you want it to
use the Content-Aware technology, in
the Options Bar, choose
Content-Aware
from the Patch pop-up menu (as shown
here). By the way, using this Content-
Aware option won't always be better than
the regular Patch tool healing—it just de-
pends on the image. So, if you don't like
the results of one, try the other. We're not
done here yet, though.
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