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Content Aware Fill not working if part of layer has no pixels

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
April 14, 2019
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I have a layer that is 70% pixels, 30% no pixels.

The Content Aware command is grayed out.

If I select the pixels on the layer, the Content Aware Tool opens, but tells me there are no pixels it can work with.

Obviously a bug.

I have to create a white layer, merge the layer with just 70% pixel content, and have then the whole layer with pixels, and then Content aware fill works.

This makes no sense, as I want to fill the zero pixel areas from the pixel areas.

But it looks like Content Aware cannot do that for some reason.

For the Adobe developers, this would be an area of improvement, as such tasks come up quite regularly.

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Norman Sanders

Legend

Sorry, but I have to ask, assuming you made a Selection of the transparent pixels.

Do you have the "Lock: Lock transparent pixels" engaged?

O

Ocean 11Author

Inspiring

Update:

The trick didn't work.

The image is a snow landscape with some sky and snow missing and I wanted it to be created.

Content Aware works forever and then has exactly zero results - no pixels added or altered, just grinding along and failing.

Content Aware total fail.

O

Ocean 11Author

Inspiring

I can't edit the post - no edit buttons, so I have to stack them.

I was able to finally do the content aware, but it put the fills on a separate layer and I had to find out where it was, and then merge with the original layer. Very weird.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ocean+11 wrote
I was able to finally do the content aware, but it put the fills on a separate layer and I had to find out where it was, and then merge with the original layer. Very weird.

That's normal for the new improved CAF. I creates a new layer with the 'fill' immediately about the layer you are editing. This allows you to further control and fine tune using masks and gradients. Johan mentioned a mask. I did not see you mentioning any masks, but if there were layer masks involved, then that could obviously affect the result.

If it is a real issue, and not due to errant workflow, then I suspect it will be one of the High Sierra issues.

Known issues - Running Photoshop CC on macOS 10.13 High Sierra

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