Part of the problem with the auto option here is that itвЂ™s taking in far too much-unneeded information. You can see that the area where the man used to be is blurry and doesnвЂ™t really match the background. Here, the auto function in the Photoshop content aware fill doesnвЂ™t do so well. (See our guide to using the Magic Wand tool.) Take this image, for example, where I want to remove the man right behind the subjects:Д«ecause the man butts up directly behind and into my subjects, IвЂ™m a bit more careful with my selection here, using the Magic Wand in addition to the Lasso tool to make sure I get all of his coat. Once we get to more complex backgrounds, the process gets a bit trickier. Object Removal on a More Complex Background ThereвЂ™s no need to make it more complicated than it is by fussing with the settings. In this example, we donвЂ™t need to adjust anything as the auto setting does a fine job. It most cases itвЂ™s good to start with auto just to see what will happen, at least until you really learn the intricacies of the tool.

Exporting to a new layer tends to be the least destructive. The output settings allow you to choose to have the output on a new layer or as a layer mask on the current layer. Other times вЂ“ like when you need a hard edge вЂ“ itвЂ™ll be better to turn it off. The default often works great, but sometimes youвЂ™ll need more blending. (I donвЂ™t find that these two options help a lot.)Д¬olor adaption tells the tool how much you want it to blend in to surrounding colors. Scaling will make details larger and smaller to try to fit them in mirroring will flip details back and forth. Now you can tell Photoshop exactly where to pull its sampling information from (and where not to). WhatвЂ™s new and particularly useful in Photoshop 2022 is the sampling area options. On the toolbar to the right you can adjust how the mask looks, the color adjustment level, and the output settings. Now we have a dialog box with a lot of controls. You either lived with the results or did things by hand. Until recently, PhotoshopвЂ™s content aware fill tool used to just do everything automatically. Next to it is the image preview, which allows you to zoom in or out as needed. (ItвЂ™s usually on the left, but IвЂ™ve it moved to the right here so we can see whatвЂ™s happening in the image.) The green area is where the content aware fill tool is going to sample from. The image on the right shows the selected object and the area from which Photoshop is going to pull the pixel information (in green).The first thing youвЂ™ll notice is an image box with your selection surrounded by a green mask. The image on the left is the preview of the object removed.

White lines after magic lasso