4. The New Content-Aware Move Tool

In the previous chapter I showed you what is possible when you combine Content-Aware Fill technology with the Patch Tool, but Adobe didn’t stop there. In this chapter I’d like to introduce you to the Content-Aware Move Tool, which is brand new to Photoshop CS6. While the Patch Tool with Content-Aware improves your ability to remove objects from a scene as if they were never there, the new Content-Aware Move Tool allows you to move an object to a new location within the image and have Photoshop do the heavy lifting needed to blend the object into the new location while seamlessly filling the hole where the object originated. You really have to see it to believe it.

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