Create a Content Aware Fill Action
Lesson 107 from: Adobe Photoshop: The Complete Guide BootcampBen Willmore
Create a Content Aware Fill Action
Lesson 107 from: Adobe Photoshop: The Complete Guide BootcampBen Willmore
Lessons
Introduction To Adobe Photoshop
04:05 2Bridge vs. Lightroom
06:39 3Tour of Photoshop Interface
18:21 4Overview of Bridge Workspace
07:42 5Overview of Lightroom Workspace
11:21 6Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
08:19 7How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:10 8Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
13:09Developing Raw Images
30:33 10Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
09:12 11How to Save Images
03:37 12Using the Transform Tool
04:48 13Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
06:03 14Selection Tools
05:55 15Combining Selection Tools
07:37 16Using Automated Selection Tools
17:34 17Quick Mask Mode
05:07 18Select Menu Essentials
21:28 19Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
13:00 20Align Active Layers
07:29 21Creating a New Layer
06:15 22Creating a Clipping Mask
03:02 23Using Effects on Layers
11:24 24Using Adjustment Layers
16:44 25Using the Shape Tool
04:39 26Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
04:39 27Masking Multiple Images Together
15:15 28Using Layer Masks to Remove People
10:50 29Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
10:04 30Adding Texture to Images
09:11 31Layering to Create Realistic Depth
05:35 32Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
05:29 33Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
10:59 34Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
03:37 35Understanding Curves
06:18 36Editing an Image Using Curves
18:41 37Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
07:19 38Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
07:14 39Editing with Blending Modes
08:04 40Color Theory
05:59 41Curves for Color
16:52 42Hue and Saturation Adjustments
08:59 43Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
13:33 44Match Colors Using Numbers
16:59 45Adjusting Skin Tones
05:25 46Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
10:52 47Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
07:53 48Retouching with the Clone Stamp
06:51 49Retouching with the Healing Brush
04:34 50Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
13:07 51Extending an Edge with Content Aware
03:42 52Clone Between Documents
13:19 53Crop Tool
10:07 54Frame Tool
02:59 55Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
08:14 56Paint Brush Tools
13:33 57History Brush Tool
06:27 58Eraser and Gradient Tools
03:06 59Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
04:17 60Blur and Shape Tools
11:06 61Dissolve Mode
09:24 62Multiply Mode
15:29 63Screen Mode
14:08 64Hard Light Mode
14:54 65Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
11:31 66Smart Filters
11:32 67High Pass Filter
13:40 68Blur Filter
05:59 69Filter Gallery
07:42 70Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
04:43 71Combing Filters and Features
04:45 72Select and Mask
20:04 73Manually Select and Mask
08:08 74Creating a Clean Background
21:19 75Changing the Background
13:34 76Smart Object Overview
08:37 77Nested Smart Objects
09:55 78Scale and Warp Smart Objects
09:08 79Replace Contents
06:55 80Raw Smart Objects
10:20 81Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
12:59 82Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
05:42 83Panoramas
13:15 84HDR
11:20 85Focus Stacking
04:02 86Time-lapse
11:18 87Light Painting Composite
08:05 88Remove Moire Patterns
06:11 89Remove Similar Objects At Once
09:52 90Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
05:46 91Replace a Repeating Pattern
06:50 92Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
10:27 93Remove an Object with a Complex Background
07:49 94Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
12:27 95Warping
11:03 96Liquify
14:02 97Puppet Warp
12:52 98Displacement Map
10:36 99Polar Coordinates
07:19 100Organize Your Layers
11:02 101Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
02:59 102Layer Style: Knockout Deep
12:34 103Blending Options: Blend if
13:18 104Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
06:27 105Layer Comps
08:30 106Black-Only Shadows
06:07 107Create a Content Aware Fill Action
08:46 108Create a Desaturate Edges Action
07:42 109Create an Antique Color Action
13:52 110Create a Contour Map Action
10:20 111Faux Sunset Action
07:20 112Photo Credit Action
05:54 113Create Sharable Actions
07:31 114Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
10:23 115Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
07:57 116Image Compatibility with Lightroom
03:29 117Scratch Disk Is Full
06:02 118Preview Thumbnail
02:10Lesson Info
Create a Content Aware Fill Action
now we're going to transition into actions in automation is there are some tasks in photo shop that you need to do repetitive Lee. And you either want to speed them up because the laborious multi step process is or you simply don't want to remember all the steps involved because sometimes they're things where you might need to use a sheet of paper to write them down. Why not just have Photoshopped keep track of the steps? So first, I'm gonna try opening an image here. This is a raw file. And in Kameron, I ended up correcting for lens corrections. There is a choice in here under the lens tab called Enable Profile Corrections. If I turned off, you'll see one part of the correction be changed. But this image was shot with a fish eye lens if I remember correctly and this is trying to straighten it in the process of straightening it, we ended up with some empty space that I don't want a crop out. So I'm gonna choose open image and I would like photo shop to fill those areas. Now the feature...
I would usually use to fill those areas is called content aware fill. And the problem is, I would like to fill those areas on an empty layer so that the filled in information is contained on its own layer. And Photoshopped doesn't like doing that. And to get around it, there's a multi step process, and I always I hate going through the process because it could should be such a simple process and it becomes more complicated. So I'm gonna create an action to keep it simple. So to access the actions panel, go to the window menu and choose actions that should get this to show up. You probably don't have as many actions as I do, but that's fine at the bottom. Let's create a new folder. If you click on the folder icon, I'm gonna just call this one ultimate guide actions. I'll click OK, and now we have a place to store our actions. We can organize them amongst the others and then at the bottom of the Actions panel. We have a bunch of icons, and I'm gonna click this one to create a brand new action, and I'm going to call this fill empty areas. I mean, ignore all the other settings that are here. We could add a color, which would literally make it have a color in the actions panel so you could organize. You're so creative actions or red and adjustment actions or blue or something like that. I find I don't need to. Here you could assign a function key, which would be the F keys that might be at the top of your keyboard, which would make it automatically apply this action. I don't need to do that in up here. The words set. That's what they call the folder. So this just means where we going to store it. And it's a list of all these folders. So in general on doing is naming it, and I'm clicking record. When I click record, watch what happens at the bottom of the actions panel. You'll find three icons on the left side of the actions panel that are used when you're recording and playing back actions, and the Round one will end up turning red men that indicates it is currently recording. Now, when you're recording, you have to be very careful at what you do in Photoshop. It's best if you practice ahead of time so that you know you can perform something flawlessly because any extra steps you put in are going to just slow down in action when it gets applied in the future. So you want to be very efficient. But I think I can remember what needs to be done here and so well, we'll see what I'd like to do here is first select the empty parts of this layer, and there's a trick that we've used a few times during the ultimate guide, where we loaded the empty everything except for the empty parts. What we did is we moved our mouths into the layers panel and I ended up holding down the command key, which is controlling windows, and I collect on this thumbnail image. When you do that, it selects all the areas that don't look like a checkerboard, and therefore it selects There is that are not transparent. I'll do that right now. When I do that, you'll find in the Actions panel. It just created a new step, and it's called set selection in Therefore win, this action gets applied. It should be able to create the same kind of selection. Now I want the exact opposite of that because I want the areas that are empty. So go to this select menu and I'll choose inverse to get the opposite. Then if I'm gonna use content aware, fill the selection that I'm using needs to be overlapping the image itself not just contained within that empty area. So I'm gonna go to the select menu, choose, modify and choose expand, and you can expand it. Just one pixel is fine. That simply makes it so. This selection will overlap the image itself by one pixel, Then usually, if I were to apply this to an empty layer, which is actually what I want to do, the content aware fill command will give me an heir message. That's just says there's not enough information on that layer for it to be able to handle things. So what I need to do is get a copy of this layer so that I'm working on Ah, copy in. So there are many different ways I could copy something. I could drag this down to the new layer icon and that would create a copy. Then, at this point, I'm going to go to the edit menu and choose Phil and I'm going to set the contents to content, aware I'll click OK in. That should be able to fill in those empty areas. But if you look at my layers panel, not only do we have those areas that are selected that just got filled in, but we have the rest of the picture and I didn't want the rest of the picture. So I'll go to the select menu and choose Inverse to get the opposite of it. And then I'm just gonna hit the delete key to throw away this middle portion of the image that we don't need. So now in my Layers panel, we have the original picture underneath and above it. We have just those areas that used to be empty that have been filled in all, then go to the select menu in Choose de Select to get rid of my selection. Now that's a process I hate going through every time because it should be that I could just tell it to fill the empty parts, and it should do all that for me. But it can. So in my layers panel, it's still recording. I need to hit the stop button to get it to stop recording, and then I need to test my action. I'm going to revert this image back to its original by going to the file menu and choosing Revert. I'm then going to click on the name of this action, which was called Fill Empty Areas, and I'll hit the play button at the bottom of the actions panel, and it should go through all those steps forming in filling the empty parts. And it seemed to work just fine. Anytime you create an action, you should look out the steps that were recorded to make sure that it's gonna be universally applicable. And the most common thing that happens with creating inaction is that if you ever switch which layer is active, it will usually record the name of the layer within the action. It will say, you know, make whatever the name of this layer is activist one of your steps, and if that's the case, the action will not usually be universally applicable because not every document will have a layer of that name. So let's see if we have anything within this action that looks like it might mess this up when I attempt to apply it to other images here. It says Set selection, Transparency Channel. I don't see the name of a layer within that. So I think that'll work fine. That simply means select the areas that are not empty in whatever layers active. Then we inverse the selection. Then we expanded by one pixel and I don't see the name of a layer in there. So we're fine here, It says. Duplicate current layer. Great. If it said duplicate, and then it's very specific layer name that wouldn't be universally applicable. We then we filled with content, aware looks good. He inverted the selection, hit, delete and then we set the selection and none. It looks to me like all those steps should be workable on any document. I don't see anything that's unique to this particular document, so I think we have a great first action
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