From the course: Lightroom: Retouching Faces

Content-Aware Remove tool - Lightroom Tutorial

From the course: Lightroom: Retouching Faces

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Content-Aware Remove tool

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- So I've definitely saved the best for last. In this video, we're going to talk about the new Content Aware Remove tool. This is integrating that content aware technology that we may be familiar with from Photoshop and integrating it into the Spot Removal tool within Lightroom. So for this, I'm going to switch over to the image that I've downloaded off of Unsplash and we've got our backpacker here. We love the the shot. I love the backpack. I love that she's just hanging out, chilling. But this strap here is slightly distracting me from the overall messaging of the shot. So what I can do is come on in here and I can zoom in and I'm going to switch my tools. I'm going to switch my tools from the Healing brush to the Content Aware Remove tool. Now you can see here you've got size and you've got opacity. Okay? So we're going to keep that as is. And what I'll do is with my brush, I'll come in and I'm going to paint over the entire strap area that I want to remove. Okay? And then I'll just let go. And automatically what Lightroom has done is it has referenced the item that's underneath it. It's referenced the area around it and it's tried to make a very good fix for that area. So I'm not the one telling Lightroom where to reference from at all. There is no reference point, okay? It's just the AI working its best. Now, if for any reason you don't like the fix that was created for you, you have the option to choose the Refresh button over here. Okay? So you can hit the refresh button and it will go through and give you different options of that fix. Actually, that one that I just went through looked really good. That looks good. That one looks better. I like the way that Lightroom has actually replicated the shadow along that edge. That's why I like this one better. I've also got an area back here. We've got this random Christmas tree branch thing that I want to remove, so I can go ahead and remove that. And if I don't feel like that gives me the best result in terms of removing that area, you can see here you've got a note that says Command or Control plus drag on the photo to select a custom source. This means I've just used AI technology to remove that, but I want to give Lightroom a little bit more information about where I want Lightroom to pull its data from, from where it thinks about how to make its fix. So I'm going to hold down Command or Control and I'm going to click and drag over this area of this crease of that rock, and that gives me a little bit of a better result for that area and it keeps the continuity of that crease of that rock, because I've given Lightroom a little bit more data as to how I want the fix to look. So that's a little bit about the Content Aware Remove tool. I hope you guys are excited about it. One added benefit of this tool is that as you sync content aware remove throughout images you're not going to end up with like a random spot of sky in the hills because you synced a spot removal throughout different images. Remember that? Remember when we would have like a random face like in the side of our image because we had done a spot removal on a previous image and then we'd synced that spot removal across all images. This is really, really going to start helping you out because using that content aware technology it's going to find the issue area and then it's going to fix it on its own. And you can always help, but this is really going to be a game changer.

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