Removing a thin line across e.g. brickwork or roof tiles how ?

[Merlin3]

Hi,

just got 26.2 and hoping after 30 years of pshop use, CS6 my current weapon,  for intelligent means of painting along a line and Adobes 'AI' assesses what is either side and matches up the pattern, be it brickwork mortar, or roof tile pattern etc.

healing brush , no use, pattern doesnt match.

have I overlooked any settings ?

Having to manually do it brick by brick, tile by tile,

There must be hundreds of such edits happening each day, so where is the tool ?

Merlin3

[Glenn 8675309]

The  "get it one" is suppossed to be "get it over", use the tool, then confirm with the check mark, in the image below it's right near the middle of the top window.

[Glenn 8675309]

I used the remove tool to remove a bunch of things from this brick house.   

Removal does not have to be perfect, but it does such a nice job a first time effort is goona be pretty nice.

[pixxxelschubser]

Generative Fill is another good option

[Merlin3]

Hi,

Thanks for replying,

Easy as the pattern is 90degs to the line, now try a line of 45 degrees, it takes the mortar but places it where it isn't wanted and doesnt match up.

for me anyway.

How is it done for angled lines to patterns,.

I had a roof light on an industrial building, running the length of the roof, tiles above and below. and the metal dividing bars didnt marry up.

try for that grille top left and the window far right as well, a line at a good angle to the lines there.

Merlin3

[pixxxelschubser]

quick and dirty

[Glenn 8675309]

Pictures, give us a bone or to knaw on- just describing what you need to do is pretty useless without images to work with

[twistedquilter]

Hi,

I have a similar problem that began 4 days ago. OS Windows 11, PS Beta & latest PS. I love this tool and the new update to the object removal tool. I'm retouching an old photo for a friend (it isn't vintage), it's just an older photo of her dad. I used the removal tool for a short hair hanging on his forehead. The green progress bar moved to about 75% slowly, then moved on to 99% I guess. It looked like the whole bar was green. I waited and waited, then an error window came up saying there was a problem with the program and PS shutdown. I sent a short explanation with the error report. I clicked out of PS then opened it again.  Same thing happened.  Sent error report. Turned computer off and on, back to PS. Same thing again.  Just for info purposes I clicked out of Beta and opened PS. The remove tool worked fine, but it was slower than usual. Windows had an update this past week so I don't know if there is possibly a glitch with that update.  Thanks in advance for any and all help 🙂

[Trevor.Dennis]

I would expect some of those tools, at least, to handle something like a cable crossing brickwork.  Can you show us the original image BEFORE you tried to edit it?  Make it full res, or at least big enough to be meaningful.

Describe your workflow.  i.e. what was your brush size when using the Remove Tool reslative to the cable/artefact?

You mention moving from CS6 to the current version, so I am wondering if you have not yet got the hang of some of the new tools?  

[Merlin3]

Ok,

Guess I have to draw lines over patterned areas, using the example in this thread. to show what I mean by diagonal lines over bricks and tiles etc.

see attached.

The door is good as its like my roof skylight where the lines didnt match afterwards.

Keen to know what tools in Pshop 26 can handle that.

Cheers

Merlin3

[pixxxelschubser]

First Remove Tool

Second Generative Fill

Third
Clone Stamp

Fourthly
All edited elements in Difference mode

Do you have any examples of your own?
I think the picture has been ‘chewed over’ enough now.

[Glenn 8675309]

Wiothout images to work with it's like 3 blind guys in a dark room:   " I feel a big head"  the other says "I feel big ears" and the third says "I feel A long hairy tail- I think it's a horse".   A man who can see walks in and turns on the lights, to see they all just described a zebra.

[Joyful_problem-solver7079]

You’re not missing a secret setting — Photoshop doesn’t currently have a “one-click pattern-aware paint” tool that will auto-extend things like brick or roof tiles perfectly.

A couple of workarounds that get you closer:

• Clone Stamp with Pattern Preview – Instead of the Healing Brush, set Clone Stamp to “Aligned” and lower the hardness/opacity. You can sample along a straight edge and paint across, which helps with repeating structures like brickwork.

• Content-Aware Fill (Edit > Content-Aware Fill) – This can work better than Healing for larger areas. You can define the sampling area manually so Photoshop looks at just the right side of the image to patch from.

• Pattern Preview / Define Pattern – If it’s a repeating texture, define a small clean area as a pattern and then fill/paint with that. Works best on uniform brick or tile areas.

• Plugins / 3rd Party Tools – A few tools (like AKVIS Retoucher or specialized texture synthesis plugins) are designed for this, and sometimes outperform native PS tools for heavy repetition tasks.

It’s true, a fully AI-driven “smart tile matcher” would be a game changer for these kinds of edits — you’re not the only one wishing for it! Right now, it’s mostly about mixing Clone + Content-Aware Fill and being strategic with selections.