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Tip: When Content-Aware Fill Doesn’t Work Like it Should
If you select an area, apply Content-Aware Fill, and it either doesn’t work at all or it does kind of a lame job, just press Command-Z (PC: Ctrl-Z) to
Undo, and then try applying it again. It’ll randomize the areas it picks from, and you might get much better results the second time you try it.
Step Four:
As you can see here, Content-Aware Fill did a great job of not only getting rid of the window on the right, it also got rid of all the other distracting stuff
really well. This is the type of stuff Content-Aware Fill does best—fixing skies, walls, trees, backgrounds, and stuff like that. Compare this image to our
original back in Step One. It took all of 30 seconds. It constantly surprises me how brilliantly it works more times than not, but in some cases, depending
on the image and what you’re trying to remove or fill, it doesn’t remove the whole thing. If it doesn’t look great, ask yourself this: “Did it at least fix part of
it, or even most of it?” If it even fixes some of the problem, then you have that much less work to do with the Healing Brush and Clone Stamp tools. Also,
another route might be to use some of the advanced Content-Aware Fill stuff that you’ll learn next. It can help by showing you a preview of the areas it’s
sampling its “fix” from, so you can influence where it chooses from to get better results. It’s really helpful, but I don’t go to that step until I can’t get this
method to work.