Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

Remove unwanted elements with a CONTENT-AWARE
BRUSH STROKE
Removing unwanted elements in a photograph has
always been one of Photoshop’s most magical
achievements. The Clone Stamp tool made such
tasks so much easier. You could also blend multiple
photographs and use masks or other techniques to
remove unwanted image elements. As Photoshop
improved, you were able to use the Healing Brushes
and Patch tool to selectively remove objects from a
photograph. Photoshop’s Content-Aware options for
the Healing Brush tools now make it even easier to
remove an element and replace it with pixels that
match the lighting, tone, and even the noise of
the adjacent areas so the replacement appears
more natural.
With the Spot Healing Brush, you can paint directly
over an area to be removed. However, you can also
use the tool to stroke a path, which makes removing
such things as power lines from a photograph much
easier. You set the Content-Aware option and brush
size, and then use the Pen tool to create the path.
When you stroke the path with the brush, the line is
replaced with elements that blend into the
surrounding areas.
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1 With an image open, click the
New Layer button to add a new
blank layer.
2 Click the Spot Healing Brush
tool ( ).
3 Click the Brush Preset drop-down
menu and select a hard-edged
brush slightly larger than the lines
to be removed.
4 Click Content-Aware
( changes to ).
5 Click Sample All Layers
( changes to ).
6 Click the Pen tool.
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7 Click the drop-down menu and
select Path.
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8 Click the blank layer in the Layers
panel to target it.
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9 With the Pen tool selected, click
one end of the line to be
removed.
0 Click the other end of the line.
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Note: If the line is curved, you can
click in the center or anywhere
along the line of the path you just
drew and adjust it to cover the line
in the photo.
! Click the Paths tab in the Layers
panel group.
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