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This is another one of those tools that makes you just scratch your head at
the math that must be going on to perform the mini-miracle of letting you
select something, then move it someplace else in your image, and Photoshop
automatically repairs the area where it used to be. This doesn't work for every
image, every time, and it's one of those tools you won't be reaching for every
day, but when you need it, and it does its thing perfectly, your jaw hits the floor.
It can be finicky sometimes, but I'll show you a few things to help it help you.
Moving Stuff Without
Leaving a Hole by Using
Content-Aware Move
Step One:
Here's the image we're going to work
on, and in this one, we want our sub-
jects to be on the right side of the
image, instead of being on the left.
Step Two:
From the Toolbox, grab a selection tool
that you're comfortable with and draw a
selection around the object(s) you want
to move (in this case, the father and son).
It doesn't have to be a perfect selection,
but get fairly close. (Here, I selected the
area between them and their shadow on
the sand, as well.) Once your selection is
in place, you can usually get better results
from Content-Aware Move by expanding
your selection outward by 4 or so pixels.
So, go under the Select menu, under
Modify, and choose Expand . When the
Expand Selection dialog appears (shown
here), enter 4 pixels, click OK, and your
selection grows outward by that much.
TIP: Draw Selection with
Content-Aware Move
You can use the Content-Aware Move
tool to draw your selections, just like
you would with the Lasso tool.
 
 
 
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