How do I add "Delete and fill selection" to an action
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I've been using the Delete and fill selection. It works pretty well most of the time. BUT, there are times when it works better if I do the selection then do a Select>modify>Expand>and add a few pixels. Then do a Select>Modify>and feather about half the size of the added pixels.
I'd like to put this in an action, but I can't figure out how to put the "Delete and fill selection" INTO the action. I can use the shortcut Shift+backspace, and it appears to work, but HOW do I put this in an action?
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Either record it or insert it using Edit > Fill (action menu, insert menu command).
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I'm pretty sure this is not an "Edit>Fill". The command is on the context menu of the Object Selection Tool, and as far as I know, it has no menu equivalent. So, NO, there's no "record" it that I can find, and the Insert Menu command doesn't appear to apply.
Does anyone know how to insert a command from a context menu into an action - specifically the "Delete and Fill Selection"?
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The command is on the context menu of the Object Selection Tool...
By DavePinMinn
It would have helped if you had stated that at the outset.
Please provide a screenshot to illustrate exactly which option you are referring to.
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It's part of Photoshop....
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Expanding the Selection and Content-Aware Fill (Edit > Fill, Content-Aware) seems able to produce an identical result.
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Thank you for the screenshot, I didn't know where you were looking, despite your description.
OK, seems that I was close when I suggested using Edit > Fill. As @c.pfaffenbichler has recommended, record that command with the Content-aware option set for the equivalent result.
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Actually, no, Content-Aware Fill doesn't product an "identical result". If it did, I wouldn't be asking how to get this command into an action. But, I don't know if it's not possible, or if nobody seeing this knows how to do it, or what, but I think it's time to give it up in this forum... Thanks for the replies...
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Photoshop doesn't record or make available every command for use in Actions, I wish this was otherwise, however, we have to work with what we currently have.
If a command isn't directly recordable, then there may or may not be one or more equivalent commands that can achieve the same result.
https://helpx.adobe.com/au/photoshop/using/making-quick-selections.html
ONE-CLICK DELETE AND FILL
Introduced in Photoshop 24.0 (October 2022 release)
Use the one-click Delete and Fill Selection feature to remove unwanted objects from your images or to retouch images with complex backgrounds.
https://video.tv.adobe.com/v/3409016
Simply use the Object Selection Tool to make your selection and use the following keyboard shortcut to remove it:
- macOS: Shift + Delete
- Windows: Shift + Backspace
But if you're working with the Lasso Tool or any other Photoshop tool, right-click the mouse to access the contextual menu and select Delete and Fill Selection to delete unwanted objects from your image.
Sadly, the action doesn't record the SHIFT + DELETE sequence as you originally noted... Which leaves work arounds.
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Actually, no, Content-Aware Fill doesn't product an "identical result".
Actually you don’t seem to have read what I wrote attentively.
You seem to have ignored the part about expanding the Selection (in my test 14px seems to work).
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It worked.