Welcome back to another very exciting tutorial here at the PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com.
My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find me in Instagram @JRfromPTC.
In this video, we're going to talk about the Content-Aware Move Tool.
The Content-Aware Move Tool allows you to move an object in an image to a different
location.
Photoshop will automatically fill the hole left behind by the object.
In this tutorial, I'm also going to show you how to duplicate, expand and contract objects
in an image with the Content-Aware Move Tool.
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Okay, let's get started.
So, we're going to be working with this image here of these hot air balloons.
This is an Adobe Stock image.
You can download the free watermarked version if you like.
There's a link to it right below in the description.
So, you may want to move things around to create negative space for text or simply to
make them look better.
You can move things with the Content-Aware Move Tool, which is nested under the Spot
Healing Brush Tool, Content Aware Move.
Make sure that your mode is set to Move, Structure at 4 and Color at 4, Sample All Layers, and
Transform on Drop.
We're going to talk about each of these options later, but for now, let's all work with the
same options.
Then, I'm going to click and drag and make a selection around the balloon.
Then, I'm going to click and drag it to the side and tap on the check mark.
Photoshop will fill the hole.
This is sort of like a Content-Aware Fill and now we have the balloon here on the side.
I'm going to press Ctrl D, Command D, to deselect.
And that is basically how the tool works, but it's actually more powerful than this.
I'm going to show you several different techniques that you can use to increase the power of
the Content-Aware Move Tool.
So, I'm going to press Ctrl Alt Z, Command Option Z on the Mac, and I'm going to do that
several times just to go back to the original image.
I still have the selection active and that's okay.
One thing that you can do when you're moving the object with the Content-Aware Move Tool
is that you can scale and rotate them.
So, I'm going to click and drag it to the side and I'm going to hover over the corner
handle, hold Shift, click and scale that down, hover over the corner handle again, and when
you see the arc arrow, I can click and rotate that balloon, then I'm going to tap on the
check mark, and now we have rotated, scaled, and moved the hot air balloon.
I going to press Ctrl D, Command D to deselect and you can see what the final result looks
like.
Now, this will not work if you have "Transform on Drop" unchecked, so let me uncheck that,
make a selection, and show you what happens when that is not checked.
So, I'm going to move it to the side, then I'm going to press Ctrl T, Command T, to transform
to get the corner handles, scale it down and rotate.
This time, I'm just going to hit Enter on the keyboard, Return on the Mac, to commit
the changes, and notice how we have this hole left behind.
So make sure that "Transform on Drop" is checked if you're going to be scaling and rotating
your objects.
So, I'm going to press Ctrl Alt Z, Command Option Z on the Mac, several times to undo.
Now, you can also work non-destructively with this tool, so I'm going to create a new layer,
and notice that "Sample All Layers" is checked, so I'm going to move the hot air balloon to
the side.
I'm going to scale it and rotate it, maybe scale it some more, and hit Enter, Return
on the Mac, and so far, this looks just like the previous example, but if I disable the
original hot air balloon layer, you'll see that the pixels were generated in a new layer.
So, you see the Content-Aware Fill here and then the rotated scaled down version of the
hot air balloon here, so you can work non-destructively.
I'm going to press Ctrl D and I'm going to do a couple of undo’s once again just to
get back to where we were and we're going to work with a different image now to explain
the different modes and structures and color.
So, I'm going to enable this layer titled pillars and one thing I want to show you before
we go any further is a keyboard shortcut so you can start making your freehand selections,
but then if you hold Alt, Option on the Mac, you can go into the Polygonal Lasso Tool so
you can make selections that way as well, and then you can just release the old key
and continue doing your freehand selection and hold Alt again and go back to the Polygonal
Lasso Tool.
So, you can switch back and forth between the two and then, of course, you can just
click and drag and move that pillar to the other side and hit Enter, Return on the Mac,
to commit the changes.
I'm going to undo those changes and I'm going to change the mode to Extend.
So, so far, we've been moving things around in Photoshop, but you can also extend them
and contract them.
So, I'm just going to make a selection around this pillar here, and I'm going to hold the
Alt key, Option on the Mac, to get the Polygonal Lasso Tool.
Now I have that selection there and I can click and drag this up to expand it, and there
it is.
Now we have a taller pillar.
And I'm going to make a selection around this pillar, click and drag it down, release and
Enter, and now I have a shorter pillar, so you can do those adjustments.
Another thing that you can do with the Extend Tool is actually duplicate things.
So, I'm going to go back into the hot air balloon layer, and once again, I'm going to
make a selection around this hot air balloon.
This time, I'm on the Extend Mode, so I'm going to click and drag it to the side and
I'm going to hit Enter, return on the Mac, and I duplicated that balloon.
I can make another duplicate and this time, I'm going to scale it down and rotate it just
a bit, and there it is.
And I can keep making as many duplicates as I want.
So that is something that you can do with the Extend.
You can extend something, contract it or duplicate it.
I'm going to press Ctrl D, Command D, to deselect.
And the last thing that we're going to talk about in this tutorial is the structure and
color.
Structure has values between 1 and 7.
These values represent how closely the patch will represent existing patterns.
If you enter 7, the patch adheres strongly to the existing image patterns.
If you enter a 1, a patch adheres very loosely to the existing patterns.
Color goes from 0 to 10 and these values control the algorithmic color blending for the patch.
Zero means that blending is disabled.
A value of 10 means maximum color blending.
And I know that tends a little confusing, so let me just show you how they work, so
I'm going to go back to where we were when we started which was Structure of 4 and Color
of 4.
And I'm going to make a freehand selection around that hot air balloon and we can click
and drag the balloon to the side and we can tap on the check mark to commit the changes,
and it works as you expected, but we can actually come in and control the Color and Structure
now, even after applying that change.
So, I'm going to just bump up the color all the way to 10 so you can see the change and
zero.
If the selection is distracting, you can press Ctrl H, Command H on the Mac, to hide, and
you can continue making your adjustments.
Notice how the pixels change when I slide this slider.
I can do the same thing for Structure.
That's at 1 and that's at 7, so you can just adjust these and see what type of changes
they give you.
So, if you make a Content-Aware Move and things are not looking right, make sure that you
adjust the Structure and Color right after you make the drop.
I'm going to press Ctrl H, Command H, again to bring back the selection.
So, if I make a selection and I move the hot air balloon to the side and tap on the check
mark or hit Enter, Return on the Mac, I can continue adjusting the Structure and Color.
But, if I disable the selection, then I can no longer control it.
So, you can control it right after the move.
So what do you think about the Content-Aware Move Tool?
Do you think this is something that you will use either to move objects around or to duplicate
them?
Let me know in the comments down below.
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