- Fill in the background. Since we’ll be repositioning our pup-
pet-boy’s limbs, we want his background to be solid sky, rather
than his doppelganger. Click the Sky & Grass layer to make it
active. Then choose Edit→Fill. In the Fill dialog box, choose
Content-Aware from the Use pop-up menu and click OK. Pho-
toshop assesses the surrounding pixels to decide how to fill in
the selection. Press Ctrl+D (�-D) to deselect; as you can see in
Figure 8-25, content-aware fill did a fairly good job for a one-
step operation.
Figure 8-25.- Heal the haloes with the healing brush. Yes, content-aware fill
is pretty cool, but you can see in this case that it’s not perfect.
(Especially when you know what to look for: the outline of the
removed object that you know was there.) To fix those haloes
left behind by our jumping subject, select the healing brush
from the toolbox. Alt-click (Option-click) in a suitably similar
area to set the source point, and smooth over the shadow effect
that Jumper left behind. Choose a few random source points
(Alt-clicking or Option-clicking) as you work to get good tex-
ture variation in the sky.
278 Lesson 8: Transform and Distort