Patch & Inpainting tool blurred edges

[glenn4121]

When using the Patch or Inpainting tools, most noticeably at edge of document, the result is blurred or blended, unclear effect. How do I make it not do this, to get a clear result?

 

[NotMyFault]

Hi,

it depend on what settings you are using for the inpainting brush (brush hardness).these tools try to blend in the replaced areas with the surrounding content, and the colors of the areas which are getting replaced:

if you want to avoid:

• Prepare the area (of wrong colors) using the clone brush, or erase tool to replace or delete the unwanted colors. You could even use the regular brush, sample the colors you want with color picker.
• then, do the inpainting as second step.
• use a non-destructive approach, and erase unwanted soft areas with an erase brush (100% hardness) or using a vector mask (rectangle or curve)

non-destructive approach:

1. add pixel layer
2. use inpaint brush or patch tool
3. set method to „current layer and below“
4. When finished, erase or mask to get sharp edges 

[glenn4121]

Thanks for your very helpful reply! I'll play around with those ideas. I'm not sure why A.Photo works this way without any way to say I don't want the soft blurring effect.

Thanks for the advice, and taking the time!

 

[Paul Mudditt]

36 minutes ago, glenn4121 said:

Thanks for your very helpful reply! I'll play around with those ideas. I'm not sure why A.Photo works this way without any way to say I don't want the soft blurring effect.

Thanks for the advice, and taking the time!

 

In my experience the content aware inpainting brush works best with a basic brush set to 100% hardness, 100% flow, 100% opacity on a pixel layer above, tool set to current layer and below so that everything you do is non-destructive. Also use the smallest brush just larger than the item you are trying to remove, work on small areas at a time.

[glenn4121]

This works well, thank you!