What happened to the Extract Filter in CS6?

[Guest]

I tried the Content aware option and all it did was shrink the image layer down.

[Jeff Arola]

Hi PhotoRoy5,

Have you tried the Refine Edge feature in photoshop cs6 for masking?

Two good videos on the refine edge for masking:

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

If you happen to be on a windows machine, the extract filter from the cs5 optional plugins download should work in photoshop cs6 on the windows version.

[Guest]

I tried looking for the the CS5 optional plug in but I haven't found it yet on Adobe site.  I did download a .8BF file but there is already such a file name under CS6 64 bits.

I jumped from CS3 to CS6. I looked at the refine filter. I haven't used it before.  The Content aware filter does not do what I thought its name implied.

[Jeff Arola]

These are the optional plugins for photoshop cs5 windows:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4688

For photoshop cs6 windows:

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/plug-ins-photoshop-cs61.html

[musonil94628978]

how do i get the extract plugin in cs6

[Jeff Arola]

Are you talking about Edit>Content Aware Scale in photoshop cs6?

[Guest]

no, i wanted to do the extract command. I opened up the image in CS3 and used it.  I finally realized that the extract command was just a specialized mask command. One can just paint a enclosure around and object and the fill it the middle with a big brush. I'll check out the two video for therefine tool above