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Image-fills and foreground masks with Content-Aware Fill

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Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill feature enables better image fill, and Select Subject automatically selects the main subject in a photo.

Use the Lasso selection tool

Open up your image in Photoshop and use the Lasso tool to outline the elements you want to remove, leaving room for nearby color and texture to be referenced for blending the fill.

The Lasso tool is highlighted in the Toolbar next to artwork of a dog standing in a wheat field. Two wheat stalks are selected.

Select Content-Aware Fill

Under Edit, select Content-Aware Fill. Adobe Sensei, our artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, goes to work, analyzing the nearby colors and textures.

The Edit menu shows the Content-Aware Fill item highlighted above artwork of a dog in a wheat field with two stalks of wheat selected
Left side shows artwork of dog in a field with selected wheat stalk; all other elements outside the selection have a green overlay. Right side shows a Preview of the dog in field artwork without the two wheat stalks

Click OK. The selected area is automatically replaced.

Workspace shows artwork of dog in a field without the two wheat stalks

Automatically select the main subject in the photo

Use the Quick Selection tool and click Select Subject. 

Cursor hovers over Select Subject button with tool tip that says: This automatically creates a selection from the most prominent objects in the image

The feature automatically selects the most prominent subject in the image.

Artwork of dog standing in a field with the dog selected

Refine the selection

Using the Quick Selection tool, in the Options bar change the Create New Selection option to the Add to Selection option, and refine the selection as needed.    

Close up of selected dog artwork while the Quick Selection tool is selected in the Toolbar. The Add to Selection setting is highlighted in the Options bar.
Bottom half of the artwork shows the dog’s body selected

Make adjustments to the selection in the Properties panel


Change various values in the Adjustments panel, such as Hue/Saturation, Brightness/Contrast, Color Balance, and Curves.    

Hue / Saturation sliders show settings applied to adjust the saturation of artwork to +48

The final result

Your presentation photo now has more finesse and impact.

Final composition with text description of the Vizsala breed of dog alongside the color adjusted dog standing in a wheat field
12/27/2022