Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5

We recently installed Adobe’s newly released Creative Suite 5 on a few of our machines. One of the first features I was eager to try out was the new “Content Aware Fill” in Photoshop.

This new feature allows you to make a quick selection within an image, delete it, and automatically fill in a randomized background based on the surrounding elements within the image.

After tinkering with the new tool for a bit, I found that it worked best with natural organic images, such as the landscape scene featured in the video below. While it does not always do a perfect job, you can reselect pieces of the image after filling, and refill them to make the image more realistic.

While this tool is not useful 100% of the time, when the situation and image permits, it can save a ton of time!