Photoshop: Content-Aware Fill to Fill Areas with Neighboring Pixels

Every now and then, you may come across an image with a spot or two that doesn’t look right. Consider the image below.

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It has a red square in the middle of a textured background. While you can clone neighboring pixels and paste them over the red square, an easier way is to use Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill option. Just select the area (red square, in this case) and then do Edit > Fill as follows:

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making sure to select “Content-Aware” in the Use field. Hit OK and here’s what you get. Nice! You can’t even tell the red square was ever there!

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