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Content Aware Fill

Lesson 56 from: Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

Blake Rudis

Content Aware Fill

Lesson 56 from: Adobe Photoshop CC Bootcamp

Blake Rudis

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Lesson Info

56. Content Aware Fill

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Bootcamp Introduction

16:22
2

The Bridge Interface

13:33
3

Setting up Bridge

06:55
4

Overview of Bridge

11:29
5

Practical Application of Bridge

27:56
6

Introduction to Raw Editing

11:00
7

Setting up ACR Preferences & Interface

07:39
8

Global Tools Part 1

16:44
9

Global Tools Part 2

20:01
10

Local Tools

22:56
11

Introduction to the Photoshop Interface

07:13
12

Toolbars, Menus and Windows

25:07
13

Setup and Interface

11:48
14

Adobe Libraries

05:57
15

Saving Files

07:39
16

Introduction to Cropping

12:10
17

Cropping for Composition in ACR

04:44
18

Cropping for Composition in Photoshop

12:40
19

Cropping for the Subject in Post

03:25
20

Cropping for Print

07:34
21

Perspective Cropping in Photoshop

07:11
22

Introduction to Layers

08:42
23

Vector & Raster Layers Basics

05:05
24

Adjustment Layers in Photoshop

27:35
25

Organizing and Managing Layers

15:35
26

Introduction to Layer Tools and Blend Modes

21:34
27

Screen and Multiply and Overlay

09:15
28

Soft Light Blend Mode

07:34
29

Color and Luminosity Blend Modes

12:47
30

Color Burn and Color Dodge Blend Modes

07:43
31

Introduction to Layer Styles

11:43
32

Practical Application: Layer Tools

13:06
33

Introduction to Masks and Brushes

04:43
34

Brush Basics

09:22
35

Custom Brushes

04:01
36

Brush Mask: Vignettes

06:58
37

Brush Mask: Curves Dodge & Burn

06:53
38

Brush Mask: Hue & Saturation

07:52
39

Mask Groups

05:52
40

Clipping Masks

04:11
41

Masking in Adobe Camera Raw

07:06
42

Practical Applications: Masks

14:03
43

Introduction to Selections

05:42
44

Basic Selection Tools

17:41
45

The Pen Tool

11:56
46

Masks from Selections

04:22
47

Selecting Subjects and Masking

07:11
48

Color Range Mask

17:35
49

Luminosity Masks Basics

12:00
50

Introduction to Cleanup Tools

07:02
51

Adobe Camera Raw

10:16
52

Healing and Spot Healing Brush

14:56
53

The Clone Stamp Tool

10:20
54

The Patch Tool

06:38
55

Content Aware Move Tool

04:56
56

Content Aware Fill

06:46
57

Custom Cleanup Selections

15:42
58

Introduction to Shapes and Text

13:46
59

Text Basics

15:57
60

Shape Basics

07:00
61

Adding Text to Pictures

09:46
62

Custom Water Marks

14:05
63

Introduction to Smart Objects

04:37
64

Smart Object Basics

09:13
65

Smart Objects and Filters

09:05
66

Smart Objects and Image Transformation

10:57
67

Smart Objects and Album Layouts

11:40
68

Smart Objects and Composites

10:47
69

Introduction to Image Transforming

04:34
70

ACR and Lens Correction

09:45
71

Photoshop and Lens Correction

14:26
72

The Warp Tool

11:16
73

Perspective Transformations

20:33
74

Introduction to Actions in Photoshop

09:27
75

Introduction to the Actions Panel Interface

05:06
76

Making Your First Action

03:49
77

Modifying Actions After You Record Them

11:38
78

Adding Stops to Actions

04:01
79

Conditional Actions

07:36
80

Actions that Communicate

25:26
81

Introduction to Filters

04:38
82

ACR as a Filter

09:20
83

Helpful Artistic Filters

17:08
84

Helpful Practical Filters

07:08
85

Sharpening with Filters

07:32
86

Rendering Trees

08:20
87

The Oil Paint and Add Noise Filters

15:08
88

Introduction to Editing Video

06:20
89

Timeline for Video

08:15
90

Cropping Video

03:34
91

Adjustment Layers and Video

05:25
92

Building Lookup Tables

07:00
93

Layers, Masking Video & Working with Type

15:11
94

ACR to Edit Video

06:10
95

Animated Gifs

11:39
96

Introduction to Creative Effects

06:08
97

Black, White, and Monochrome

18:05
98

Matte and Cinematic Effects

08:23
99

Gradient Maps and Solid Color Grades

12:20
100

Gradients

04:21
101

Glow and Haze

10:23
102

Introduction to Natural Retouching

05:33
103

Brightening Teeth

10:25
104

Clean Up with the Clone Stamp Tool

08:07
105

Cleaning and Brightening Eyes

16:58
106

Advanced Clean Up Techniques

24:47
107

Introduction to Portrait Workflow & Bridge Organization

14:47
108

ACR for Portraits Pre-Edits

21:27
109

Portrait Workflow Techniques

18:46
110

Introduction to Landscape Workflow & Bridge Organization

12:17
111

Landscape Workflow Techniques

37:36
112

Introduction to Compositing & Bridge

06:59
113

Composite Workflow Techniques

34:01
114

Landscape Composite Projects

24:14
115

Bonus: Rothko and Workspace

05:15
116

Bonus: Adding Textures to Photos

07:05
117

Bonus: The Mask (Extras)

05:18
118

Bonus: The Color Range Mask in ACR

04:54

Lesson Info

Content Aware Fill

There's another tool we have here. It's called the Content Aware Fill Tool, and if you're familiar with Photoshop dating back to, you know, CS5, CS6, this was breakthrough, cutting edge technology back then, that now has kind of just found its way into other tools, where what you're seeing with the Content Aware Move Tool and what you're seeing with the Patch Tool, those are all things that actually do, kind of source, this fill technology. So if we were to go and use Content Aware Fill, there's a couple reasons why we would use this, and one of them, first of all, let's make a selection for some of these rocks here and I'll show you Content Aware Fill first there. So if I go there and I grab, I zoom in here and I grab this rock and I wanna fill this in. Let's say I didn't wanna use something like the Clone Stamp Tool, or I didn't wanna something like the Patch Tool, for some reason or another. I wanted to select multiple areas, like maybe press shift and select this area too. I could ...

then come up here, press shift F5, or go to edit. Shift F5. Why is it, oh, 'cause I'm stuck up here. If you're stuck in here, it's not gonna work. Shift F5 and then go to content aware, and select color adaptations so that it does help the color around it, and if we press OK... It's not gonna do what I want it to do. That's interesting. (laughs) Shift F5 and content aware. Let's turn color adaptation off, let's see what happens there, press OK. Okay, hold on one second. Shift F5, color adaptation, let's see if the blend mode is the problem here. Maybe we'll change it to normal, press OK. There we go, it was a blend mode. So as it was trying to fill in those areas, it was using the blend mode of soft light to fill in those areas, which is not what I wanted. I want it to literally take a selection for me, so setting it to normal was what did that for me. So if I zoom in here, we can see that if I press command or control D to deselect that, we've got a hard edge around there. It did a good job of filling that stuff in. All that stuff disappeared, right? But it's got that hard edge around it. One thing that I did not show you was selections. That you can also do while you have a selection available, is if you go up to select, and you go to modify and go to feather, this will feather the edge before we even do the Content Aware. So if we feather that edge by, let's say five pixels, press OK, and then we go to shift F5, and then Content Aware Fill, it's gonna feather that edge so we don't get quite as much of a hard edge. Hmm, it didn't do it quite as well as it did before. (laughs) It didn't like that feather. Let's go ahead and go back to our selection here. Let's go back here, just act like that didn't happen. Okay, we'll go select this and then select this, and then we go to select and we'll go to modify and we'll go to feather, change this to two pixels, press OK. And then shift F5 and then Content Aware, yeah. We had too many pixels selected. So at five pixels, it was selecting so much of that area around it that when it came in and did the feathering, it also did too much of a color adaptation because of the amount of pixels that we had feathered there, but if we just do two pixels, it does pretty well. But this is basically the technology that we used long before all the other tools were around. Now where this can be helpful, is, let's say with this image, we wanted to extend the sky a little bit. Okay, so let me go ahead and turn this layer off, make this an un-background layer and go to image and go to canvas size. Right now, with this set to canvas size, I'm saying that the width of this image is 20 by 13. If I change this mode down here to relative, and I change the height to two, that's gonna give me a relative height increase on both the top and bottom of the image, but if I go ahead and do this, that's gonna make sure that the height increases by two inches up and not two inches down and up, okay? So once I do that and press OK, I've added two inches to the top of my canvas. So if I wanted to fill this area with the rest of those clouds, I would use one of my selection tools, like maybe the Magic Wand, click that area that's empty, and I would use something like the Content Aware Fill to fill that in. Shift F5, Content Aware Fill, it's gonna do some calculations and it's gonna fill that sky area in. This can be great if you've taken a shot, so you've got a shot, imagine a building, you got the top of the building, a city skyline, and one of those buildings is just creeping into the top and now you've got a compartmentalized image that has stuff on the left, stuff on the right, building in between. Well we want air to breathe around that top area. So instead of dumping that file, you can just add some area to it, fill that area in with Content Aware Fill, and now you've got the area replaced. I do have to give you some words of caution here though. When we do this, it might make a seam, and we don't want a seam. If it does make a seam, and you see a seam of transparency underneath there, just go ahead and take a step back, and now we're gonna go up to select, go to modify, and go to expand, and we're expanded by two pixels. So what that does, just that two pixels, is gonna allow Photoshop to see more of the area below it, below that selection, and feather those two areas together. Shift F5, Content Aware Fill, press enter, and we're good to go. And actually what it did there was it made a much better fill, and even if you look at the top of that sky, it even made it look like it's branching out into a perspective, pretty interesting. That added more sky. So that's areas that use Content Aware Fill. What's happening there though, we got repeating patterns, don't we? There's a lot of repeating patterns there that we would not want the viewer to see. If that was the case, we could then come to something like the Clone Stamp Tool, take different areas. Maybe a bigger area from over here, alt or option, click here to make it kind of blend in a little bit better, break up any of those repeating patterns that we would see in the image so that the viewer doesn't really see that we used something to expand the sky.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Photoshop Bootcamp Plug-In
Textures
Clouds
Painted Backgrounds
1 – Intro to Photoshop Bootcamp
6 – Intro to Raw Editing.zip
11 – Interface and Setup
16 – Intro to Cropping and Composition.zip
22 – Intro to Layers.zip
26 – Intro to Layer Tools.zip
43 – Intro to Selections.zip
50 – Intro to Cleanup Tools.zip
58 – Intro to Shapes and Text.zip
63 – Intro to Smart Objects.zip
69 – Intro to Image Transforming.zip
74 – Intro to Actions.zip
81 – Filters.zip
88 – Intro to Editing Video.zip
96 – Custom Effects.zip
102 – Natural Retouching.zip
107 – Intro to Portrait Workflow.pdf
110 – Intro to Landscape Workflow.zip
112 – Intro to Compositing.zip
115 – Rothko and Interfaces (Bonus Video).zip
33 – Intro to Masks and Brushes.zip
106 - Frequency Separation.zip

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

Amazing course, but don't be fooled into thinking this is a beginner's course for photographers. The problem isn't Blake's explanations; they're top. The problem is the vast scope of this course and the order in which the topics are presented. Take layers for example. When I was first learning Photoshop (back when we learned from books), I found I learned little or nothing from, for example, books that covered layers before they covered how to improve/process photographs. These books taught me how to organize, move, and link layers before they showed me what a layer was actually for. Those books tended to teach me everything there is to know about layers (types of layers, how to organize them, how to move them, how to move them two at a time, how to move them two at a time even if there are other layers between the two you're interested in, useful troubleshooting tips, etc. ) all before I even know (from a photographer's point of view) what it is the things actually do. The examples of organizing, linking, and moving mean everything for graphic designers from Day One, but for photographers not so much. Blake does the same thing as those books. Topics he covers extremely early demand a lot of theoretical imagination for a photographer who doesn't already know quite a bit about what he is talking about. Learning about abstract things first and concrete things later only makes PS that much harder to understand. If you AREN'T a beginner, however, this course is amazing. I thought it would be like an Army Bootcamp, taking you from zero and building you into a fit, competent Photoshop grunt. Now I think it's more like Army Bootcamp for high school varsity jocks. It isn't going to take you from the beginning, but the amount you'll get out of it is nonetheless more than your brain can imagine. I've been using PS for years to improve my photographs, and even to create the odd artistic composite or two. The amount I've learned in the first week is amazing, and every day I learn something -- more like many things -- which I immediately implement to improve my productivity and/or widen the horizons of what I can achieve. If you ARE a photographer who's a Photoshop beginner, I'd take very seriously the advice Blake gives in the introduction: Watch one lesson, and practice the skills and principles you learn in that one lesson for two weeks. THEN watch the next lesson. You can't do that of course without buying the course, so it's up to you to decide whether you'd like to learn Photoshop and master Photoshop all from the same course. Learning it first and mastering it later will cost more money, but I think you'll understand everything better and have a much more enjoyable ride in the process. As for me? I'm going to have to find the money to buy this course. There is simply way too much content in each lesson for me to try to take on all at once, but on the other hand I don't want to miss anything at all that he has to share.

Robert Andrews
 

Blake Rudis is the absolute best in teaching photoshop. His knowledge and how he presents the instruction is clear and concise - there is NO ONE BETTER. Yes, his classes require some basic skills, and maybe I'd organize the order of (or group) the classes in a different order, but, let me be clear - if anyone is to be successful or famous in the Photoshop world, it should be Blake Rudis. I strongly recommend his teaching. I started photography and post processing in 2018, and because of this class, I'm know what Im doing. The energy you get when you create something beautiful is profound, it makes you bounce out of bed (at 4AM) like a 5 year old, to go create. It's a great ride! Thanks Blake, & Thanks Creative live.

Esther Gambrell
 

WOW!!! I've been purchasing CL classes for several years now and have watched HOURS of "How-To Photoshop" classes, but this is the first one I've actually purchased because of the AWESOME BONUS content!!! SERIOUSLY??!!?!? A PLUG-IN??? But not only that, Blake is SO easy to understand, and he breaks down concepts in different ways to connect with different people's learning styles. I REALLY appreciated this approach because I am a LEFT-BRAINED creative that has an engineering background, so I really connected to what Blake was saying. THANK YOU FOR THAT! There are TONS of Photoshop courses out there, but I found this one to be the most helpful in they way Blake teaches concepts so that you know WHY you're doing what your doing. I feel like he taught me how to fish with Photoshop to feed me for a lifetime instead of just giving me a fish to feed me for one day. This is the BEST overall PS course out there!!! Thank you!!!!

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