How to Use Lightroom Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects From Photos

In this video, I'll explain how to use the content aware fill tool in Lightroom so you can easily remove objects and people from your photos.
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⏰ Timecodes ⏰
0:00 - How to Use Content Aware Fill in Lightroom
0:50 - Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects From Photos
3:58 - When Content Aware Fill Doesn't Work
6:44 - Removing People From Photos
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This video will show you everything you need to know about how to use the content aware fill tool in Lightroom. Using this Lightroom tutorial, you'll learn when you can use content aware best in Lightroom and when the tool doesn't work well. After watching, you'll be able to easily remove objects and people from your photos in seconds.
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[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Are you using Content Aware Fill for your Lightroom photography edits? LMK!

[@geoffbaker380]

Yes. Your explanation was great. You covered areas that were troublesome -- when content aware doesn't do good job (area selection to correct) and use of other healing-clone tools. Thank you again.

[@juancarloschan7501]

Lightroom Classic

[@MarcosIssa1]

Lightroom

[@janismcgowan9283]

I am and this helps a great deal. I am planning on learning more ps skills but in the meantime this helps a lot! Thanks!

[@stubones]

It seemed to work better with previous versions of LRC. The latest updates have done something not good...

[@gabrieldiaz5967]

Thanks for a quick and easy to follow vid.

[@kimmiea3321]

Awesome tips here, Thank you, David!

[@mickbear413]

Thanks for another great informative video David. Another step into my learning of Lightroom and photoshop.

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Glad it was helpful!

[@viksail]

I am learning to use the content aware fill and this video has corrected all the issues I was having with it. thanx. I have subscribed so I don't miss any more LR features.

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Glad it helped and thanks for the sub!

[@lrtdale]

Great content. When shooting day to night Timelapse I often get small bugs on my lens, this is a great way to eliminate them.

[@richardduckworth859]

Thanks for the update, David. Up until now I have often been disappointed in the LR clean up tools, and often sent the photo to Ps. I'll look forward to trying this new feature, particularly I like that new feature you mentioned last of choosing the area you want to clone from. It's kind of a combo of content aware fill and the clone stamp.

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Yes! It has worked great for smaller objects, but like I said, it can be tricky for larger ones

[@91364Steve]

This will really speed up my workflow. Thank you.

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Great! So glad!

[@larrym2068]

Thank you, David. I didn't know there was a LR update that contains this feature. Just updated my software and look forward to using it. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Enjoy it, Larry!

[@AleRodrigues]

Great video David, I have tried this feature and it stills fall short of the PS version, but what a big improvement from the previous LR version. By the way, soon I'll be sharing some landscape photography channels around the world in my YT channel + blog and yours is on the list. thanks for sharing this content. Will let you know when I do. Congratulations

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Thanks for sharing the channel! I agree, PS is still more precise but there’s no doubt this tool will improve with time

[@arlinevinson8448]

I’ve not tried it. Looking forward to doing so. Thanks for a good demo👏🏻

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

You bet! I hope it adds tons of value to your editing!

[@krisweyers6248]

Just updated today. Can’t wait to try it.

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Nice! There's new masking features as well

[@richardsmith5021]

Thanks David , I haven’t tried it in LR, but have inPS. I’ll have to compare the two and see which works best in different situations.

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Thanks for watching!

[@shara1659]

Great video, thanks. For some reason I can’t find this AI feature for my healing brush in LRC. Is there a download I need to get to make the magic happen?

[@jimharris3889]

I prefer PS for these challenging clones/content aware fill , much better tools in PS , the remove tool is outstanding in PS,, way better then LR, LR works fine for dust and such

[@audreyfraser2806]

So does this work on a shadow on a backdrop in studio so basically the person sitting in front of the backdrop and there’s a shadow to their last or the photographers, right?

[@run4life549]

I have tried the tool and like it, but I don't seem to be able to add separate content aware removal areas and cloning areas. When I switch from one to the other the source area changes to the other tool. I had to make multiple exports and do the removal in stages. I am doing this on a PC. Thoughts?

[@FaithfulPastor]

Hi David. I have mixed results and I do not know why. Sometimes I click on the Content Aware Remove tool and I get a the circle. Yay. Sometimes I get a drawing tool that looks like a caterpillar. Once I get the caterpillar, I'm lost. I cannot figure out how to get back to the circle. What's the cause? Why am I not always getting the circle?

[@harmenvanwelbergen4224]

I use it in lightroom

[@vickirushing8298]

Does this work on an iPad? I have a subscription.

[@hjmkhalaf]

Hi, Is there a way to sync Content-Aware Remove across multiple photos and it makes it smartly just like the masks? that would be great to save time removing the same object form multiple photos Automatically regardless of the location of object in the photo

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

You can but it doesn’t work very well. You’ll honestly spend more time fixing it afterwards

[@capshroud]

The magic eraser function on my Pixel 6 phone works better than anything I saw here.

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

I honestly wish Google would make a desktop photo editing software

[@jimpool6096]

In Lightroom classic.

[@karenpettay688]

Unfortunately, my effort didn't play out anywhere near as easily as this video shows. Only a small section morphed into a different look. Part of the unwanted object still remained. ?

[@leoliu8403]

I always use photoshop to remove obstruct subjects, I will try Lightroom to do the jobs

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Same! With this feature I can stay in LR more

[@TVe200]

I use it in Lightroom. When I go into Photoshop I never find out where Adobe have placed things. There are so many options and I don't understand most of them.

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Well now with the new tool you only have to use it in LR

[@paulkinnaird7015]

Still use PS except for sensor dust

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Right on!

[@mikebodge5870]

That looked like Nick Page that you removed?

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Lol I talked to him the morning of this shoot, but wasn’t him.

[@treyfoerster8759]

Just LR

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

What's great about it is that it just got way better

[@heatherrobinson112]

Use Lightroom however not always acceptable

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

True that