Content-Aware Fill: Could not fill — not enough source pixels on the selected layer. Pardon!?

[Richydobe]

Hi friends,

Two .pngs. Same workflow. Different results. What am I doing wrong?

With the orange .png, Ps won't even allow me to use the custom sampling brush.

Does Content-Aware Fill hate the colour? The shape? Or me!?

Definitely in need of your advice and expertise here.

I have included screenshots of Content-Aware Fill working with the green .png and not working with the orange .png.

[lambiloon]

Hi for the images for which content-aware not working not use the tool just use the fill command there you see content-aware option try that...regards

[Richydobe]

Hey Ali,

Thank you, I have now tried that, and guess what? Same error!

'Could not fill because there are not enough source pixels on the selected layer.'

I even tried Select > Modify > Expand to select more pixels.

I wonder what's wrong?

[Trevor.Dennis]

I tried to duplicate your issue with a similar design, but it worked OK.  I hate to suggest resetting Preferences because it irritates the heck out of me when I have to resort to it, but when things gets weired, it often does the trick.