So I need to give a shout out to my friend
Unmesh from PixImperfect, who posted a video
recently about this because I totally missed it.
But wow, this new remove tool in Photoshop
is incredible.
So like I said Unmesh posted a video about this
new remove tool just a few days ago
and as usual, does a great job
explaining it and going through some examples of using it.
But seeing his video,
I just had to check it out and try it on some of my own images.
But I also thought for this video
I'd do a bit of a deep dive into content aware
fill to show how we can use it in a different way
to get a great result removing this tricky area here.
So this new
remove tool at the moment is in Photoshop beta,
but it is available to everyone who is an Adobe Creative
Cloud subscriber.
You can download the beta just by going to the Creative
Cloud app,
going to the beta apps section and just clicking on install.
Once you have it installed, the remove tool is found amongst
the healing brush section, or by pressing J on the keyboard.
So let's kick off then with this picture
here of my wife doing her bit
for the environment, picking up some plastic off the beach.
If I was to use, say, the spot healing brush,
I'd brush all over her and her shadow and then release.
But the result isn't that good.
So let's try good old content aware fill.
I'll grab the lasso tool
and make a loose selection around her again and her shadow.
Then I'll go to content aware
fill and again, not that good of a result.
But let's now try the remove tool which uses
artificial intelligence,
so it should give us a way better result.
Using the remove tool I’ll brush all over her and her shadow
to cover with this pink overlay and then just release
and moments later a why better result.
In this example here I'll cover my wife and the dogs
with the remove tool and it does a great job removing them.
But there's a little bit here that's gone a bit odd.
Now because the remove tool uses artificial intelligence
I'll brush over that area again to see if it recognizes
what it should do.
And there you go. Done.
Now, when we use remove tool,
just like every other tool in Photoshop,
we have options available in the options bar.
One of them is the sample all layers checkbox.
So if we tick this, we can use the tool non-destructively
on a blank layer
rather than on the top of the original or a copy.
So add a new blank layer.
I'll rename it remove
and then I'll use the
remove tool to cover over myself with the overlay.
And it's done.
And that's not easy with there being water splashes.
There's a little bit here again that looks odd,
but if I brush over again, the AI fixes it.
Now, this picture here is a bit
more challenging with the waves crashing.
But look, I'll use the remove tool and brush all over me
and the tripod, and yet again, it does a great job.
That is so impressive.
Now, another option we have when using the remove tool
is this checkbox here.
Remove after each stroke.
Now at the moment I have this ticked
and that basically means that
whenever I use the remove tool and brush over with the overlay,
the minute I stop and release it then gets to work to remove
whatever it is that I've covered.
But if I untick it allows me to add multiple strokes
and then tell Photoshop to remove it.
This picture here is a perfect example of when to use it
with all these people spread about all over the beach.
So I'll just cover them all.
And when I've done that, I just
then press the tick in the options bar
and moments later it's done.
Now there's a couple of areas to sort out.
This one over here,
and the water here looks a bit odd, too.
Now there's a few reflections I could go back and remove,
but again, it's done a great job.
The last thing I want to show you is a different way of using
content aware fill when you're working
in areas that are a little bit challenging.
In this picture here
the majority has been removed using the remove tool,
but this area here in the bottom, right,
it's just not the right tool.
For this I'd use content aware fill.
I'll start by making a selection
and for this I'm using the pen tool.
Then once I have the selection, I go to content aware fill
but even though I tell it not to use certain parts
of the picture to cover over that area, it doesn't work well.
And that's because
we have two very different areas to cover the floor
and the wall, and that's a big ask
to expect it to be able to do that.
Instead, this is how I would do it.
I'd make a selection of the wall area first,
then when I have the selection,
go to Quick Mask by pressing Q.
We can see the selection would be very sharp and defined,
so I'll just feather it a little by adding some Gaussian blur.
Only a small amount
and then come out of quick mask.
Next I'll go to content aware fill
and I'll completely remove the green overlay,
which is covering the areas that Photoshop
will use as a reference to fill the selected area.
Now when I do that, I get this warning box basically
saying that Photoshop has no idea what it can use,
but then I use the add to overlay tool in the top left
and then brush over just the wall area
telling Photoshop to use this only.
I'll then check to see if changing the color adaptation
helps to blend it better,
but I think
I'll just use default and click okay.
I'll then use the clone stamp tool
at around 50% capacity to blend in
a little bit better.
Okay, now the floor area.
So again, I make a selection,
I go to content aware fill.
Remove the overlay and then tell Photoshop
only use this area of the floor as reference
and done.
I can try color adaptation, but actually I think I'll just
click okay.
And then again
I'll use the clone stamp tool to tidy this area up
and then add a simple levels adjustment with a clipping mask
to add a bit more blue
and we're done.
Now just one more thing ...
to make it
look more realistic where the wall and the floor meet.
I’ll create a merged layer at the top of the layer stack
and then make a selection of this area with the lasso tool
and copy it onto its own layer.
I'll move it and reposition it
and then duplicate it to extend it along a bit.
These two layers are then merged together
and then use a levels adjustment to brighten it up
and then a mask to blend it in.
Done.
So this is before and this is after.
Now the remove tool is still in beta, so just bear that in mind
when you use it, but already as it is, very impressive.
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