#ADOBE CS6 RULER TOOL PATCH#

Left click and hold on your subject and move them to where you want them to be. For that reason I’m going to go for Medium. The lines on the grass will be pronounced. Loose/Loose would distort my subject terribly here but Very Strict will mean This is how your selection will adapt to its new background. So make sure Move is selected and choose yourĪdaptation. This is useful for repeating patterns like grass or a wall for exampleīut not what we want to use here. Extend will do what it says and extend your

Now choose the Content-Aware Move Tool: Select the Content-Aware Move Tool The person or thing you want to move be quite rough with this, don’t crop in Part of your image and move it elsewhere, whilst automatically filling in theīackground for you so you’re not left with a ‘hole’. Again, this tool may require some blending depending how ‘busy’ theĪrea you’re using it is. The sky, it’s also created a reasonable edge of the rock that doesn’t look out You can see that it hasn’t just replaced it with the grey of

#ADOBE CS6 RULER TOOL PATCH#

The Patch Tool has removed the other puffin and filled in some of the rock and sky to replace it To ‘fill’ from – so in my case, the plain sky. Hold your left mouse button and drag the selection to somewhere you’d like it Clicking somewhere inside the marching-ant lines, I selected the tool as described above and drew around the So here I have a pesky puffin bottom in my shot My selection using the Patch Tool Then drag it to a section of pixels that you’d like it to use to base its 'fill' on. Select Patch Tool and use it to draw around something you want rid of. Slightly different method, so I’ll go over that briefly. The Patch Tool (see below) works on the same premise as the fill technique but with a This is our 'half' in case you were wondering. It’s just to make you aware that there may be some tidying up orīlending to do once you’ve used ‘fill’. Very easily fixed with the Clone Stamp tool and even the Spot-Healing Brush as They aren’t easily visible at a small resolutionīut you can see them if you zoom in as I have on the examples. You can see where I’ve highlighted above, that I deliberately chose a picture that would have some easy toįill bits (the sky – it’s relatively plain) and some harder parts (the rocks – Anomalies You will spot some anomalies in your picture Use Content-Aware to fill the white spaceĬontent-Aware will do its thing and fill in your gaps with

It looks and if the overlap looks too great or too small, just repeat the last Thisĭepends on how large your photo is (I went for 20px) so try a number, see how It will then ask you to select how many pixels by. That your edges aren’t obvious, so the next step is to go to Select > Modify You’re going to want a slight overlap when this fills so Select those using the Magic Wand toolĪnd with Add to Selection clicked, select the white parts like so: Select the white parts using the Magic Wand You’ll be left with a straight picture and some excess It will automatically fill in the angle of rotation based on your line Fill in the Blanks It will automatically fill in the angle based on the line Use the Ruler tool to draw a line along something that should be straight Know should be straight, so in my case, the sea. First, use the Ruler tool to draw a horizontal line along something you Of shot creeps in now and again then this tool will be particularly useful for Of example: I actually took the picture like this. Sadly, I didn’t tilt the horizon here for the purposes Straighten That Horizon A horizon line you could roll a ball down This is a common one though, wonky horizon lines. The same premise so when I go through this example with you here, you can apply This has a variety of uses in itself but they all have You it was easy! Using Content-Aware Fill The small area around the imperfection to fill over your speck seamlessly. Make sure C ontent-Aware is selected and then take aīrush slightly larger than your speck of dirt and click over it. Select the Spot Healing Brush Tool: Select the spot healing brush tool

It will, in most cases, remove unwanted aspects from a photo quickly and smoothly. If you ever have dirt on your lens, want to remove small imperfections from portraits or even zap a distracting bird from a sky then this is the tool for you. We’ll start with the easiest use of Content-Aware. Imperfection Removal Using the Spot Healing Brush Tool Through three and a half of the most advantageous uses of this revolutionary It’s been described as magical and a life-saver but whatĮxactly is it and how can we best use it? In this tutorial I’ll take you Since Adobe Photoshop CS5, we’ve had a toolĬalled Content-Aware.

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