Click the circular reset arrow for “fill settings”, as the default settings are usually the best place to start.Create a hard-edged selection with the lasso tool () and go to Edit/Content-Aware Fill.The workflow for Content Aware Fill is a bit iterative, but generally works looks this: If either of these items are grayed out in the menu, make sure that you have selected a normal pixel layer (Smart Objects are not supported) and that you already have an active selection (which you can change once you enter the new tool, but you will need an active selection to use it). Just go to Edit / Content-Aware Fill (not simply “Fill”).
The new tool is in a different place and has no keyboard shortcut by default (though you can customize your keyboard shortcuts to use it if you prefer). To access the old tool, you can click -, -, or go to Edit/Fill and set the contents dropdown to “content aware”. And finally, there are several more controls to allow you to specify whether or how source material is manipulated to deal with specific issues, such as a repetitive pattern disappearing into the distance.īoth the old and new version of the tool are available in Photoshop CC 2019. There has always been a bit of unpredictability in the tool, and these live previews allow you to more quickly explore different settings to find exactly what you need.
Another critical change is that you get a live preview as you make changes to both the source material and areas targeted for fill. This eliminates the biggest problem, where random objects show up in the fill. The biggest change is that you can easily specify which parts of the image can or cannot be used as source material. Adobe gets this and they gave us a lot more control in Photoshop CC 2019 with a new version of Content Aware Fill. So simplicity is great until is doesn’t work. But this tool sometimes grabs the wrong source material and creates epic failures. It’s perfect for cloning or fixing larger areas of an image without having to re-sample over and over with the clone stamp or healing brush, or to define the source area using the “patch” tool.
Content-Aware Fill has long been one of those features in Photoshop that feels like magic.
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