NEW AI REMOVE TOOL IN PHOTOSHOP: REALLY EASY WAY TO REMOVE ANYTHING FROM A PHOTO

There are many ways to remove objects from pictures in Photoshop. We all know the Content Aware Fill, healing and spot brushes and the trusty clone stamp tool. All of these work by sampling the surrounding pixels. The new Remove brush, uses ai to generate pixels to fill the area, even if those areas don’t exist in the original image. This make it ideal to use for retouching. The Remove Tool doesn’t always get a perfect result, but it can get you most of the way where you can finish off the work with the traditional tools.

GETTING THE REMOVE TOOL IN PHOTOSHOP BETA

Currently, the remove tool is only available in the public beta of Photoshop (I’ll show you how to get it) it will be coming to the CC Photoshop soon, I don’t have a release date I can share.

Click on the Create Cloud App to launch it on mac or Windows. If you don’t have it, go to

You will need to login.

On the left column, choose Beta Apps.

You will see a list of available beta apps. Choose Photoshop and Install. Now you can choose Open

Use the Photoshop beta, not the standard version, when you launch. Both of these can coexist simultaneously on your machine.

In the toolbar, choose the Remove tool.

There are two choices.

No matter which layer you are on, everything that is visible will be used. Only the contents of the current layer may be impacted if this is disabled. As we go, I’ll give additional details.

After each stroke, remove. When you lift your mouse, the tool will activate if this is turned on. If you turn it off, you can brush various areas of the image separately before applying the modification all at once by pressing Enter or the checkmark.

switch to sample all layers on

Create a new layer

We will work on a new blank layer and it will work because Sample All Layers is on. This will enable us to work non destructively.

Turn off Remove after each stroke

The item we want to delete will be painted over. The woman in this picture would probably not be removed, but it will show how the tool functions nonetheless.

The [and] keys can be used to modify the brush size. Going just a little larger than the object, paint over the area to cover.

Click the checkmark at the top, or press the Enter key on the keyboard.

The object will be removed.

There are still some artifacts and a shadow remaining.

The remove tool can also do the touch ups. Turn on Remove after each stroke.

Paint over the areas to remove.

EXAMPLE #2 REMOVING DISTRACTIONS WITH THE REMOVE BRUSH.

This example is more of a real-world scenario, we will be removing objects and distractions.

Paint over each of the letters on the STOP.

Notice it does an almost perfect job of this one.

Paint over the pole in the stop sign.

It even successfully reconstructed the manhole cover automatically!

Cover the stop sign in paint

And here is is with everything removed easily. You can see the actual process of this on the video at the top.

EXAMPLE #3 FLYING CAR WITH THE REMOVE TOOL.

Here is a picture of a classic car.  1963 Lincoln Continental.

You can see on the video as I remove the wheels and arches in a few simple brush strokes.

I believe the Remove tool will significantly reduce the amount of time needed by retouchers. It may be the only tool you require in some circumstances, but you can combine it with additional tools to achieve consistently great results.

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