Michelle Peeters

'Color Adaptation' gebruiken om Content-Aware Fill te verbeteren

Wednesday 1 January 2020, 15:30 by | 5,111 views | 2 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Meredith Stotzner shows in the video below how you can make Photoshop's 'Content-Aware Fill' tool more accurate using the 'Color Adaptation' setting.


Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill tool seems fairly straightforward, but a recent tutorial shared by Adobe shows a clever little trick that can lead to more accurate edits.

The tutorial shows how changing the default 'Color Adaptation' setting in the Content-Aware Fill workspace can result in much more accurate fills when working with images that contain gradients, for example.

As Adobe's Meredith Stotzner explains, this setting adjusts the brightness and contrast of the filled area so that they match the surroundings more closely when the default setting produces a too-rough edit. The setting is on by default, but not at its highest strength.

Color Adaptation Content-Aware tool Photoshop


To improve the feature, Photoshop offers a 'High' and 'Very High' setting for smoother transitions, as well as a 'None' setting for when you are working with hard edges with overlapping colours.

It is a small change, but it can lead to much more pleasing edits when you need to remove objects from an image.

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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2 comments

  1. Rob ijsselstein
    Rob ijsselstein wrote on Tuesday 7 January 2020 at 11:52  | reply

    Interssant. Why isn't that set to the highest setting by default? Can that also. Be department?

    Translated from Dutch.
  2. Michelle Peeters
    Profile Michelle Peeters wrote on Tuesday 7 January 2020 at 12:20  | reply

    @Rob: you don't always want it set to the highest setting. You use "none", for example, when working with hard edges with overlapping colors.

    Translated from Dutch.

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