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

[@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...

[@hurleygreen927]

BIG THUMBS UP FOR THIS VIDEO! Thanks for the info...

[@hurleygreen927]

GREAT INFO...appreciate your video!

[@kimmiea3321]

Awesome tips here, Thank you, David!

[@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!

[@gabrieldiaz5967]

Thanks for a quick and easy to follow vid.

[@krisweyers6248]

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

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Nice! There's new masking features as well

[@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!

[@mickbear413]

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

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Glad it was helpful!

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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!

[@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?

[@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?

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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. ?

[@vickirushing8298]

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

[@mikebodge5870]

That looked like Nick Page that you removed?

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

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

[@harmenvanwelbergen4224]

I use it in lightroom

[@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

[@paulkinnaird7015]

Still use PS except for sensor dust

[@DavidJohnstonPhoto]

Right on!

[@jimpool6096]

In Lightroom classic.

[@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

[@jimforbes9119]

Please! PLEASE learn the difference between LIGHTROOM AND LIGHTROOM C L A S S I C ❗ Your video is about Lightroom classic yet you titled it as Lightroom.