But even with its new Content-Aware abilities, the Spot Healing Brush is still best suited for smaller areas that we can easily click on or paint over. Set the fill type to ‘color’ and select the color you want to outline your photo. Select ‘Stroke.’ Set the stroke position to ‘inside’ and leave the opacity at 100. Next, double click on the duplicated layer to open the Layer Style Panel. The main difference is in how we use them.īoth features let Photoshop analyze the contents of the image to figure out what the photo would have looked like if the unwanted object or area had never been there. This shortcut will create a new merged layer to add your outline to.

It's no coincidence that both of these new features share similar names, since they do pretty much the same thing. This time, we look at another new feature in Photoshop CS5 - Content-Aware Fill.

In a previous tutorial, we looked at Photoshop CS5's upgraded Spot Healing Brush with its brand new Content-Aware Healing option that lets Photoshop examine the actual contents of your image as it tries to figure out the best way to remove or repair the damaged or unwanted area you've clicked on.