- Hi, I'm Glyn Duis, and in this video,
I've got a little trick to show you
how you can get the very best results
when using Content Aware.
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Okay, so sometimes when you use Content Aware,
you might find you don't really get
the results you were hoping for,
so in this video, I wanna show you,
by using an extreme example,
how you can kinda use a little trick
to get the very best results from Content Aware.
So let me show you what I mean.
Now, in this group of people here you can see
that I've got a selection going
around this gentleman just here on the left hand side.
Let's just say that we want to remove him from the group,
and that's quite an extreme thing
to ask Photoshop to do here,
but we'll see what happens.
So I've got my selection around him.
We'll then go to the Edit menu and choose Fill,
and from the Contents dropdown here,
we're going to use Content Aware,
and then click OK.
Now, when I do that, Photoshop is gonna look
what is around this man
that I can drag in to cover over
so that we didn't know he was there.
But the thing is, Photoshop doesn't know
what it can and can't use,
and you can see here now,
doesn't give us the best result.
But, actually when we zoom in,
actually this guy here would be quite happy
with this result, I would've thought.
He's got a little bit of hair.
But you can kinda see now it's kinda dragged in
a bit of this gentleman here.
We can see it here.
Just not a good result.
But we can't blame Photoshop for that.
So, I wanna show you now
a little trick we can do to help it.
So, let's just delete that layer
and we'll create a copy again,
'cause we never use Content Aware
on the original picture.
So, what I'll do then.
Let's just load the selection
in that I made of that man earlier on,
just using some quick selection, I think I used.
So, here we can see it.
So, now then, I've gotta tell Photoshop
what it can and what it can't use.
So what I'll do is this.
I wanna get my Lasso tool,
I wanna hold down my Shift key,
and I wanna kinda extend this area,
this selection that I've made already.
So, I'm gonna tell it
let's just go all around here
and all around here, down to there.
And let's just sort it out on this man's head just here.
So, now when you look at this
marching ants selection area here,
it only includes the man that I want to remove,
and some of the background.
It doesn't include anybody else within the picture.
Now that I've got that, I'm gonna add a layer mask.
Now, when I click on this layer mask to show you,
if I hold down the Alt key on PC or Option key on Mac,
click on the thumbnail of that layer mask,
you can see we've got the white and the black.
So, now when I use Content Aware,
Photoshop can no longer see the rest of the picture.
It can only see the bits that are included
in this white area.
Now, we can see it, but Photoshop can't.
So, what'll happen now then is this.
Let's just go back to the normal view,
and I'm gonna click on the thumbnail
of the actual group picture.
So, now let's go back.
Now that we've got that layer mask,
let's go to the Select menu,
load the selection option,
load in the selection I made of the man.
So, this is what we'd ordinarily expect to see,
but don't forget we've got this layer mask attached us now.
So then, let's go back.
Edit,
Fill,
and from the Contents menu, again,
we'll choose Content Aware, click OK, but now look.
Bang!
Photoshop does a fantastic job of removing him.
Now, don't forget, this is an extreme example here.
So, if I just get rid of the marching ants,
we can see that there is, you know,
a little few areas here that I need to tidy up,
but with that layer mask attached now,
telling Photoshop what it can and what it can't use
when we're trying to cover something over,
it's very quick and easy for me to come in,
using Content Aware on these little bits here
to get rid of them very, very quickly.
So, you can see there,
very, very simple indeed.
So, a few areas here to maybe tidy up,
but let's just back out for a second
and turn the off and on.
So, there's off, on, off, on.
Very quick, very easy, but it's just a little trick
to tell Photoshop what it can and can't use.
So, I thought I'd kinda share that with you.
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