Adobe Photoshop for iPad Gets Content-Aware Fill, Remove Background, More

Adobe Photoshop for iPad has been updated with several new features including content-aware fill, remove background, and more.

For the last few updates, our focus has been on enabling you to perform lots of adjustments to your images with one tap. Whether it’s removing the background or using AI to remove parts of an image, we’ve got you covered!

Content-Aware Fill

The Photoshop team has spent 30+ years adding new and innovative technology to imaging, and Content-Aware Fill is one of the landmark features on Photoshop Desktop. Today we’re bringing this functionality to Photoshop on the iPad, with an easy one-tap step that takes any selection and uses AI to fill its contents based on its surroundings! Make distracting objects in your background disappear, or blend artifacts smoothly. Remove unintended bystanders in your photos, clear out artifacts and dust, and see what else our AI technology can do. To use it, take the lasso tool, or one of Photoshop’s smart AI-powered selection tools like Object Select to pick an area, tap “Content Aware Fill”, and watch your selection disappear and blend into your image.

Remove Background

One of the most transformative tools in recent times has been the power to remove the background of any photo, allowing you to take the subject and place it within other images, replace backgrounds with other scenes, and more. Photoshop has led the way by driving the highest quality results with a combination of its patented Select Subject technology and layer masking, allowing you to remove the background from any image non-destructively — without actually changing the original pixels of the image. We’ve brought this one-tap action to Photoshop on the iPad to make your work faster and more accurate. Swap out any background or place your subject within another image seamlessly. Simply open your image and select “Remove Background” under the lasso tool, or under Quick Actions on the right-side properties panel.

Auto-tone, Color, and Contrast

Some of the most common actions Photoshop users take upon opening a photo on Photoshop Desktop is to run some combination of 3 commands — Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color. These commands will give you one-tap solutions to correct tonal issues or color imbalances, so that you can take the extra steps out of adjusting your photos and continue on with your work. To use, simply tap the auto commands from the “Filters and adjustments” icon on the right side. Add a quick dose of Content-Aware Fill, and you can touch-up and remove objects from your photo in a matter of seconds!

You can download Adobe Photoshop from the App Store. More details on the update here.

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