@9:20 you point out one thing that I've discovered with "my new best friend" (aka Remove Tool). I've found that it is best to treat it like a small child and feed it small portions at any one time. All together, this is a good vid.
Great video. I, like @photosonpixels, nearly didn't watch this video. I'm glad I did because I had missed some of the intricacies that are offered. Thank again, Blake.
Blake, I must confess: I almost skipped this tutorial thinking that "how hard can it be to use this tool? I've used it already and have not seen any major issues with it. BUT, as usual, I have picked up several important best practices from you that I am ready to put into practice in some difficult images that I am processing where water droplets are giving me a head ache. I thought I would use "dust and scratches" to fix the problems but now I am thinking that the removal tool may actually be a better choice. Thank you for your tutorials, Blake. Always educational!
Hi Blake, Thank you for another informative video. I especially like the tip about using your pen and tablet for making selections. I too am a big fan of the XP-PEN Star G640 linked to in this video. I find that another reason for using the "Remove after each stroke" option in the Remove tool is that is let's you quickly see the result of the adjustment or type Command/Control Z to undo it. Keep up the great work.
I agree it does seem faster with the remove after each stroke option and that way if its not a good removal you can quickly try it again in the same spot without trying to look all over the image for imperfections. One spot at a time :)
A couple of years ago you did a video on your favorite graphics tables -which you named in this video. I ended up buying it at the time and it was probably the best $30 I ever spent!
@@f64Academy What’s your take on all the new AI tools software companies are giving us? ON1 and Luminar Neo, just to mention 2, are marketing big updates coming. Are they trying to lure me away from the new workflow I’m learning from you?
I actually just found the Remove tool and started using it. Amazing in what it can do and how much more accurate it can be in removing larger objects (like people). I had a photo that I thought I would have had to crop (Because there were a lot of people in the edges but was abl eto clean it up and have it be convincing with the Remove tool, so I'm glad they added this. (The Photo would not have looked right if I had to crop in the edges as I would lose some of the vastness of the scene -- which was a landscape scene).
While I understand the gist of the Remove Tool, the image you used reveals many details of the rock that using the Remove tool seemed inconsequential and confusing for novices. Perhaps another simpler image exampling the removal of a tree, a flower, balloons, etc., or other definable objects would have made for a better understanding and clarity of use.
@@f64Academy kool thank you! Awesome video too on how to use the ORT properly. I also just used “100 sandwich/magenta Smurf” techniques you taught in your latest video. Wow!! Works perfectly!!!
Thanks for the video. I have used the Remove tool. It's not good for removing leashes that run across the dog's fur. I find it leaves artifacts even after repeated attempts. It really does have limitations.
Here in South Africa we are waiting for our parent body, the PSSA to set out rules for AI. Currently everything in your image has to be your own work. Personally used the way you have I don't see the difference between this & some existing tools, just easier.
To me the Remove Tool isn't exactly the AI everyone should be burying their heads from. It perplexes me that its even a discussion. It is just a smarter version of the older content aware fill model. These Associations need to grow up, lol. Yeah, Generative Fill is something to fear in their shoes, but not this. Lol. For example, open a picture of a face. Then use the Remove Tool on one of the eyes. It will more than likely fill it in with skin, not another eye that was crafted in the ether. Oh boy, sometimes I think these associations just like making up problems for themselves.
Since Sample All Layers is active, all above or below will be used. Maybe in the future we have the same options of the Healing Brush Tool and Clone, Current, Current & Below and All plus the ability to turn on and off Ignore Adjs Layers
Remove tool use the same AI of Generative Fill, but on a much smaller training set because it runs on your machine and not in the cloud like Generative AI. As Generative Fill it creates new chunks of images that are not more than 1024 px on the larger side: larger portions will be stretched and will become blurred. Small strokes works fine. But I always get better results with Generative Fill also when it comes to delete something. It is much more powerful than remove tool, because it uses a huge trained AI and the GPU's of Adobe big computers in the cloud. It takes more time, but it's worth it.
Well done Blake - thank you. I did wonder why I could not use a blank layer for the repairs!!! Has the removal tool made the spot healing brush obsolete? Also, would the remove tool be an easy option for removing halos? Thank you.
I do not know what I am doing wrong. The first time I use the tool, I hit enter and it removes the item. The next time I do it, it replaces it with a gray/black pixel spot where I tried to remove an item. I don't know why it's doing this? I am on v 24.7.0. Please help!
It tends to smooth or blur more than Remove. But I've had one or two cases in which it worked better than Remove (because Remove was being too "conscientious").
Unfortunately this remove tool doesn't work if you use PS in Rosetta. And I have to use Rosetta on my Mac M2 laptop or most of my PS plug ins don't work. I can get the job of removing things done in the old ways but it would nice to have that tool. If anyone knows how to use it when using Rosetta I would love to know how to do it. My current solution is to turn off Rosetta for PS 2023 and leave it on for PS beta. So if I want to use some of those plug ins I open the image in 2023. If I am not planning to use, say Topaz Studio 2, I will choose Beta with Rosetta and the remove tool is activated.
I typically work in Adobe RGB, but whatever you work in, keep it streamlined throughout your process to keep your workflow consistent from camera, to raw processing, to Ps. It really doesn't matter IMO what space you choose as long as its consistent. sRGB would be my last recommendation though.
I leave my Remove Tool set to Remove After Each Stroke. But every once in a while I want a straight line stroke, so need to turn it off. But then I forget to turn it back on and wonder why nothing's happening.. Ha ha, duh!
