Photoshop's BEST New Tool 

Oh my! I just learned something new watching this video. I would have the layer that I was working on as a smart object and when I needed to do something with pixels I would then rasterize it. I just saw that Nick just created a new pixel layer and was able to make pixel adjustments without rasterizing the smart object layer. An eye opener! Thank you Nick…

I’m all for this type of stuff. Why should there be skill involved in doing tedious work like cleaning a messy scene? It should be easy and accessible to everyone as it saves time and allows you to move on to more important stuff that does need skill.

Hey Nick, I thought if you had a Smart object I would have to flatten the image before using this tool, you just used a blank pixel layer and set select all layers and it worked great, thanks Nick.

Nice one Nick thanks for sharing this top tip.🤗

I have been a clone stamp addict since I discovered it in the last year or so, but I think I am sold on this new remove tool. Thanks for sharing this tip, Nick! This is the first I have heard about it.

Love this! Thanks for showing it to us, it saved an image I had trouble with years ago!

So happy you made this! I was in Yosemite and tree limbs encroached no the composition I wanted. Was not looking forward to an afternoon of clone stamping... now excited to get that one! (also points out I should be paying attention to the release notes)

Thanks Nick! Good to see you posting more.

Solid tip man, I've been using content aware for most of my clean-up which for the most part does okay but this.... this is much better and in most cases doesn't need much follow-up! Thanks man!!!

Thanks for the morning wake up call! This promises to be a game changer. It even did a good job on lens flare. The old methods for removing lens flare were so complex and tedious.

Omg I love all your videos. You explanations are so simple and easy to apply. Thank you for what you do for all off us!

Thanks for another great video. I had the exact same experience with a waterfall picture. There was brush and an old sneaker. The remove tool made short work of them.

Thanks for sharing Nick.

Wow… You’re not kidding! Thanks for covering it, I will absolutely be using it moving forward.

Thanks for the great information Nick! Very cool stuff!

Thanks for the information, Nick! Was totally unaware of this new tool!

Thanks Nick! Super cool tip. Much appreciated!

Thanks for the video Nick!

Oh wow! How could I not have heard about that remove tool? Thanks for bringing that to our attention.

Yep. Totally agree. It’s an amazing tool. I’ve used it to clean up some ancient photos I’ve scanned too, so good!

Good review, straight to the point.Thanks.

Would love this in Lightoom , great vid as always Nick

Thanks, Nick for this, and also to learn about adding pixel layers.

I just subscribed. This is awesome! I've got a handful of photos from years past that I struggled to make presentable with the various other editing tools PS has. This makes me want to go back and clean them up with this tool.

Wow thankyou Nick this is one that passed me by, got some shots with security tape in that I will give a try on. Thank you once more.

I tried this recently and I gotta say, it works really well. I only really used it for small things I wanted removed. That being said, removing the entire truck from a grass field is absolutely wild! I didn’t realized it could do something like that. Definitely won’t need to use it to that extent, but it’s still good to know.

Thanks Nick. This is great info. I have some new images from Alaska that I am looking forward to trying this on.

So it’s like a much quicker version of the select/content aware fill. Wow. Nice!

Thanks Nick! Looks like a great tool

Thanks for the heads up on this tool Nick. I can now revisit some older raw files from trips I did many years ago and deal with some distracting elements and make a better jobs of it than I did before.

Good stuff Nick. Very impressive! Will give it a go next time I clean up my images.

Love it! Works great!!!!

Excellent! Good to see you 😀

🏃 to update my photoshop. That's incredible and will most likely only get better. Thanks Nick

Thanks Nick. I just happened on it while doing an edit and said, "hmmm, wonder what this does?" Like you say, it's amazing and I've been using it heavily!!

Wow! Great tip. Everyone is talking about the other AI features which I found fun to play with but the Remove tool is much more useful for what I am doing. Thanks!

Wow, I wasn’t aware of that tool. Can’t wait to try it.

Thanks for this video, Nick I have a recent cascade image that has a blurry snag branch in it that I had spent considerable time trying to remove using every PS removal tool. I could not get the texture lines to line up properly at all. It was extremely frustrating. I updated PS and tried the removal tool. It worked flawlessly matching the texture lines and colors....mind blown.

Many Thank, Very Helpful And Informative , Great Presentation. Big Thanks Nick For Sharing. 🇬🇧

Nick, great video, yep remove tool has totally been lost in the hoopla over generative fill, which is also pretty amazing and it's only going to get better. As always you share news that you can use. You are a rockstar!!

Wow Nick thats mind bendingly useful . A little slow on a 2019 iMac but a heck of a lot faster than fiddling around with the spot healing brush and with way better results . I often need this tool in museum and historic home images to remove those annoying "ropes" used to keep public back from exhibits . Thanks so much for making my life easier 😀, it would be even better if it was in ACR !!

Thanks Nick! This is a game changer!

Great video, Nick.

Thats a pretty neat tool in fact it is awesome thank you for sharing!

Wow thanks so much. This is a game changer. Hope you’re doing well Nick

Thanks Nick!

Great video, very informative. My takeaway from this new tool would be use it in small sections when trying to remove a large object. Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks buddy - as a 'novice' to LR & PS still the content is much appreciated... Cheers from down under..

impressive! thanks for this!

Handy tool buddy, looking forward to your ps tutorials!

Thank you Nick. I love you brotha!

Good vid mate thanks.

Wow!! Thanks! Sure enjoy your videos!

Thank you for this tip. I just tried it on a photo of two owls that had some twigs in front of them. It removed them perfectly!

Wow.... Amazing!

Thanks, NIck. What a great new tool!

I have definitely been LOVING that remove tool!

Agree completely. The Remove is my favorite tool as well. In fact I had been using PS Beta to be able to use the generative fill, but I found for a lot of what I wanted it for it was hit and miss, which made it kind of annoying. But this remove tool is spot on - just incredible.

Couldn't agree more how great and easy that tool is to use. Really helps when removing objects next to trees in woodland, or distracting branches crossing main trunks, saves spending time trying not cutting chunks out of tree trunks :) Sometimes as photographers (albeit amateur for me) we need to utilize AI and this I feel is definitely one of those times.

I've just bought myself the android version of Lightroom and it also comes with the remove tool and does a damn good job.

Love it too! The generate AI works pretty well too 😁. Thanks Nick.

I've tried this out and yes it's impressive being more accurate and less messy that the other tools that you've mentioned Nick I don't mind using AI to assist images that I've already taken but not creating from scratch of course 📷👍

I agree, it’s pretty awesome what it can do. During one of my recent wedding shoots there was a fire extinguisher on the wall behind the couple and I tried to remove it using the Photoshop remove tool, Pixelmator Pro’s remove and Affinity Photo 2 inpainting tool. And the winner is… Affinity Photo. Photoshop did well but misaligned things, pixelmator pro almost there but Affinity dealt with it perfectly.

Yep. It is fantastic. I primarily like to use LR but now, almost every photo goes to PS for cleanup. I also use TK8 and like the soft pop action with reduced opacity in that so I do that as well.

Thanks for this, I wasn't even aware of this new tool since all anyone can talk about is the evil generative fill tool. LOL. I will be using this new remove tool a lot, I suspect. Thanks again.

Think I'm finally ready to get the cloud version.. cs6 was great but sad all the updates go to the subscriptions. So finally going to have to update.. glad I watch your videos

Am I the only one who hasn’t had great luck with the remove tool? I gotta look at my Photoshop settings again. I’m happy too see more Nick Page content though! I really do enjoy upload days. Thanks for sharing with us!

Nice. I might need to use photoshop sometimes. I really like to keep my workflow as much as possible on my iPad with Lightroom.

I do agree on your thought.

I agree with your thoughts about this new remove tool, its excellent!

Definately went under the radar as you said due to generative fill taking up all the recent limelight. Adobe has upped their game in the last 6 months and are making some good advances with noise reduction as well...Glad I came across this one, cheers.

Fully agree. This tool is confusingly good actually. The more you use it in an image the quicker it gets as the algorithm figures out the specifics of that specific image. It also has a very high success rate at knowing when to remove things and when to leave them be. This means that you can use it to straighten lines. Things like jagged edges of tables, uneven curbs, beard lines etc. I actually edited my tool bar to make remove tool the default icon because i use it more than the other tools.

Love the new remove tool!

Glad that no skill is required. Looking forward to the next-gen sky replacement in Ps too. Thanks for the demo Nick.

Great video, Nick! Yes, Adobe is better and better every day😁

Hi Nick, it‘s also my favorite remove tool👍

I'm finding that sometimes the remove tool is the best and sometimes generative AI is best. When one of them gives a sketchy result I'll back and try the other. Don't yet have a "best use case" for one or the other. Some are having trouble finding the remove tool, as I did initially. Go to the bottom of your PS tools bar and select "customize toolbar". In my PS version shown as 3 dots. You may find the remove tool down in the detail listing. Move it over to your active tools list.

I had no idea this was there. Been using the content-aware spot healing brush fo years and always had to use the clone stamp tool to fix the little anomolies it left behind.

Hi Nick. The remove tool in PS and the de-noise tool in LR are both fantastic. Adobe still playing catch up but they've delivered major improvements here.

Oh that's cool, I've been paying with the beta and hadn't even heard of the remove tool! Should really help with tracked milky way comps!

Wow….that’s ridiculous. I just spent probably an hour removing some branches I didn’t like in a waterfall, and it only came out fair. Can’t wait to try this

For power lines Luminar Neo I found works quite well. When using the new remove tool click on one end of the power line, and hold down the shift key at the other end of line and click, poof the line is gone

I have used this tool and have had mixed results. Sometimes it works well. Other times it's a disaster even leaving artifacts. I do pet photography. I used this tool to remove an narrow harness from a German Shorthaired Pointer. Sometimes it worked well other times it left large dark splotches. I had to use the Patch with content aware fill to fix. The Remove Tool would also leave some small artifacts not unlike noise. Fortunately that got cleaned up in Topaz Denoise program. Don't get me wrong. I love the tool but it has it's problems. I know you have a dog. Try taking a pic of your dog wearing a collar with tags and the leash going across the body. Then use the Remove Tool to get rid of the leash and the hardware and you will see what I mean although you have a Lab which is pretty much solid color so you may not have too much of a problem except where the fur changes direction. I like the tool and use in conjunction with the others. It's good but it's not perfect especially for pet photography.

As always, great video! I learn so much from your channel! Do you get this tool in the Beta version? Because I cannot see it in Photoshop (no beta)

Hey Nick Thanks for the video. Can you tell which version of PS are you using please ?

it is also in lightroom, its really good

Thanks, again, for your very informative videos. I noticed you use a tablet. After spending 12 hours masking a ground shot with a Milky Way shot (I am very picky and not yet very practiced with Photoshop), I’m feeling the excellent mouse I have is not cutting it. What brand and size tablet do you use? Here are some videos I would love to see: 1) editing and color matching blue hour ground photos with night sky shots 2) workflow for replacing blue hour sky with night sky. There are often blended blue edges on the blue hour shot, and yellow edging from horizon lights on the night shot. I tried all kinds of auto masking, and none worked particularly well so I ended up brushing and blending most of it by hand at 1600x. I am sure I am missing something. 3) I find the auto tools for removing things from in front of detailed objects don’t work well. Say power lines in front of fireworks, or branches in front of birds. I find this especially true on edges of the image. This is very different from removing a car or person in a scene because the eye picks up the linear nature of the patches from the objects being removed. Do you have a video showing a workflow for this?

Nick, I just bought your "Essential Photoshop for Landscape Photography" last week, and even though I am still at the beginning chapters, it is an awesome course! But this new tool you show, would that be covered in the tutorial that I just bought (and any other recent improvements to Photoshop)? I want to make sure the extract the maximum out of Photoshop, so I can hit the ground running...and redo all of my images that I edited only in Lightroom!

Hi ... can you explain please what is a pixel layer and why do i have to convert the photo to smart object and sample all layers before applying the tool ?

Thanks.....

I just used it on some reflections I didn't want in some water. So easy.

After using content aware fill for about the last two hours on some sand dunes shots, I wish I would have watched your video earlier!

one of my favourites from Adobe, Nick when you uploading ICELAND please :)

thanks for pointing this out..we can thank the folks at Luminar for forcing PS to up its game. I love the 'remove dust spots' and 'remove powerlines tool' in Neo. Their sky replacement is still better than PS but probably not for long.

Agreed , It makes so easier ,No I am removeing unwanted people from mictures with this tool, uses lot.

The remove tool is AI based with the same technology of Generative Fill, although it runs locally while GF runs on the cloud.

Curious how it works on night sky stuff pretty cool!

Well now that it is hard to take a bad exposured photo (well, except in my case) & now this I guess anyone can be a pro without worrying what is in the frame when you push the shutter. Personally, I like using the clone & arrow keys in AP to line up feathers, hair, etc. on wildlife, nature & scapes. If I was a pro with mucho photos to edit I'm sure this is the way to go. Well, at least we still have exposure blending? Rite? We still do or???

I agree!! What a timesaver and the accuracy is amazing…the good side of “AI”

It seems super powerful but i do feel like it left a green tinge on some spots? Still, i can't beat that lmao!