When you see a Content Aware Fill demo you might think it is magic, but when you actually try to use it in a project you may find the results are less then desirable.
The tool has absolutely no settings what so ever and if you just try to use it on its own you will find the results to be unpredictable at best.
In this tutorial I will try to show you how you might be able to "trick" Photoshop into producing more predictable, and desirable results.
I am writing this tutorial because a user of this site has requested it, as well as I too was very frustrated at figuring out how to achieve respectable results with this tool.
Step 1
With the marque tool make a broad selection of the area you wish to remove, and duplicate the selection to a new layer "command/control J" will do the job.
Step 2
Delete and part of the image you do not wish to incorporate in the Content Aware Fill process. I use the quick selection tool for this, it seems to work great for rough selections even with the default settings (also has no settings to play with)
Step 3
With the quick selection tool select the portion of the image you wish to fill, and then go to "select/Modify/Expand and add 2 to 3 pixels to your selection. This will eliminate any unnecessary cloning after the fill process.
Step 4
Apply the Content Aware Fill command to the selection and watch the magic happen. I find if you follow up the fill with a second application of Content Aware Fill, you get even nicer results.
All thats left now is some fine tuning with the clone stamp tool and maybe the healing brush.
Final Result
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