Step 1: Intro  |  Step 2: Brush/Pencil  |  Step 3: Spot Healing Brush  |  Step 4: Healing Brush  |  Step 5: Patch  |  Step 6: Content-Aware Move  |  Step 7: Content Aware Fill  |  Step 8: Clone  |  Step 9: Combining Tools  |  Exercise
Exercise
Content-Aware Move Tool

The Content-Aware Move Tool works opposite from the Patch Tool. With this tool, we draw a selection area and then click that area and move it to a spot in the image where we want to relocate it. Photopea fills the original spot by looking at the surrounding pixels. Let's get some practice.

  1. Right-click the Patch Tool and then click the Content-Aware Move Tool...
  2. On the Content-Aware Move Tool options bar, make sure Replace is selected...
  3. Staying in the same area of the photo, click and drag to create a selection area similar in shape to that below...
    Notice that when you release the mouse button that your drawing coverts to a selection outline
  4. Click and drag the selection area to so that it covers the kiosk to the left...
    Note when you release the mouse button that the kiosk has been replaced with the concrete area
  5. Press Ctrl+D to deselect...

The Content-Aware Move Tool is very useful for removing people and objects that are very close to items we want to keep like buildings and trees. Since we control the shape, we can make selections of any size and use those to replace anything we don't want in the image. Once again, keep in mind that Photopea is not simply replacing the area you drag the selection over. Instead, it is blending the two areas together, so be careful what area you choose to move and what areas you choose to replace. If the areas are vastly different in color, tone, tint, etc, you will get all kinds of strange results.

  1. Go around the image and remove any people or objects that the Content-Aware Move Tool will be quick and effective on
    HINT: As mentioned above, this tool works great on objects next to buildings, so take advantage of that but be careful - if you try to replace objects that are really large you will get fuzzy distortions, so be ready to undo your changes and use a different method if this happens

Let's save our work up to this point.

  1. Click File and then click Save as PSD...
  2. Save the image in the Remove Objects folder as remove.psd

In the next Step, we will step away from individual tools and use a method that, while similar to the tool used in this Step, give Photopea a little more power to adjust our image.

Step 1: Intro | Step 2: Brush/Pencil | Step 3: Spot Healing Brush | Step 4: Healing Brush | Step 5: Patch | Step 6: Content-Aware Move | Step 7: Content Aware Fill | Step 8: Clone | Step9: Combining Tools  |  Exercise