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[Bryan O'Neil Hughes, Sr. Product Manager-Photoshop] Content-Aware Fill has been one of the most popular features in Photoshop CS5. The ability to quickly and easily remove pieces of an image or even add to the image is the sort of thing that really resonates with all sorts of different types of users. What I'd like to show you today is, what to do when Content-Aware Fill doesn't work for you. So what we have here is a photo that needs to be restored, and this is exactly this sort of thing that Content-Aware Fill loves. If you have a little rip like we have in the corner here, it's as simple as just selecting it, hitting delete, and filling that in. Now if I come up here and I select a large area, and then I hit delete, more often than not in a case like this, I'm going to end up with some stuff I didn't want in the image, and what I want to do in a case like this is think about how Content-Aware Fill is working. I'm asking it to look within the selected region, and compare it to what it knows about the rest of the image and then fill that in. So if I give it too much to look at, it's not going to be able to fill it because it doesn't know as much about the image. If I give it a smaller area and ask it to fill, what I can do is I can step through piece by piece, and get the results that I'm after. The key, if you have a problem with Content-Aware Fill, is to just take smaller selections, and fill those in, one by one. So there you have a really important tip to making sure that Content-Aware Fill works as best as possible for you no matter what case you're using it in.
