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adamp62488032
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October 30, 2019
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Could not fill because there's not enough memory

  • October 30, 2019
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Hey everyone,

 

LOTS of posts on this issue! I have a file, which I'm going try and attach that (on my machine) can demonstrate the "memory issue" AND work just fine, depending on what pixels you select! In this image, select the white "plus" sign in the middle of the square. Then select content aware fill from the image menu. If you are unlucky, like me, you'll see the "Could not fill because there's not enough memory" dialog box. Now, on my machine, I can unselect everything, then select the top/left quarter of the image, and select content aware fill, and it works! This is a very small image too, it’s only 50x50 pixels. But something about it makes it unable to fill that small plus sign, but still be able to fill other regions.

Any thoughts? Can anyone download and confirm this?

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adamp62488032
adamp62488032Author
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October 30, 2019

OH! Either I don't know what I'm doing (very possible) or I found the problem!  The image was two layers, the 'plus' I was trying to fill was empty or at least 100% transparent. As soon as I merged the background and the square image, I was able to content aware fill on the plus sign, when there was some non transparent pixels in it!  So it seems that content aware fill will not work if the selection is 100% transparent, and fails with a "not enough memory" error. At least there is a work around here! Just fill some pixels in!

adamp62488032
adamp62488032Author
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October 30, 2019

Aww bummer... I guess I didn't solve it. I went back to the original work I was pulling this small 50x50 image from, and tried my tirck of filling in some of the pixels in the area I wanted to "content aware fill", and although it worked in the image I attached, it didn't work in the smart layer image I had in the larger document. Still not enough memory to fill those 100 or so pixels...

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