The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

42. USING CONTENT-AWARE FILL AND SCALE

A GREAT FEATURE of Photoshop CC is its ability to fill a specific area in a picture based on other information in that picture. Filling in an area in an image used to require a lot of work with the Clone tool. You would sample bits and pieces of another area to try and get it to match. The task has become much easier due to Photoshop’s Content-Aware technology. Put very simplistically, when you make a selection where you want to fill in your image, Content-Aware scans the picture to find the most appropriate area from which to draw information to fill your selection. It then fills the area you selected with ...