Looking at the video of content aware I got the feeling that this feature is just too good to be true. So I was happy to run several tests and methods of using Content Aware such as via the delete key and also spot heal brush. Lets take a look at my tests.
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Here is the original my goal was to expand the scene. Making the campus bigger and having aware content fill in.
Here is my first attempt and this made me go great… the tool just was too good to be true. Still I wanted to try a few different methods to see if there was a better option.
I decided to work with a smaller area and it seemed to work much better but still needed some work.
I tried the Content Aware delete on some smaller functions and then used some good old fashion clone stamp tools and got it to look a little better. Its not a perfect tool but certainly this Content Aware function speeds things up.
So I did another test to expand a scene this time in space.
Here is the original.
First attempt shows it just depends on the information around what the outcome will be. See see this stars look perfect in fact most of its great because the big glowing star and the lens flare.
Still this tool proves useful. It won’t be the one and only tool to use but its certainly a nice tool to have. Using our other tools like the clone stamp tool we can get the job finished and the Content Aware Feature just speeds up the process.
My next test aren’t about expanding the scene but instead removing elements within a scene.
Some images have good amount of content to use.
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Some don’t have the necessary content to use.
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So I did another test, limiting the content in which it is aware. I did this by taking the road and the part of the desert around around the road, avoiding the large hills and mountains and I put it on a separate layer. Then I selected just the road on that layer and went to the fill tool using Content Aware.
Result
Another test
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Next I tested out the Spot Heal Brush tool with Content Aware.
I took out the poles and the person with the brush and the road and bench with deletion.
The final test that I did was a real quickly just to see how effective the spot heal brush tool is and even though it is useful it probably shouldn’t be used carelessly since images can look weird as I found out.
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End result its another great tool from adobe but like all their tools you have to learn when and when not to use it and also never to fully rely on one tool to get the job done.
