So now it's changed to, I don't actually know what that is. This brush over here lets me simply brush into the green area and take those bits out of consideration, and now it's changed.

So, I would like to remove that from the sample source. It's pulled in part of the roof, part of this thatched roof over here. So, here Photoshop has decided that this is the area that it's going to sample from, and you can see that it's not doing a great job. As you'll see, I have some other options for what it does with its results. Again, up to Edit, Content Aware Fill, I'm sorry before I do this, I want to make sure you saw another step that I took, which is I needed to switch back to my background layer because by default, when you come out of Content Aware Fill, if it has made a new layer, that layer is selected.

So I want to be sure that Photoshop doesn't pull from there, that's the tricky part about this particular fill operation. So there's a little, I don't know what this is, an outhouse or something here that the lens flare's right on top of. I could use any of Photoshop's selection tools to do this, the Quick Select Tool which works more like a brush, but not be a bad alternative either. So again, I'm just going to use the Lasso Tool. I've got this green one right here that I want to take out. Let's do one that's a little bit harder so that we can see some of the other option that this new tool provides. So this gives me a nice non-destructive way of doing these content-aware fills. I can turn that off, and there's my original. And in this case, it got it right right off the bat, so I'm going to just say OK to that to select it, and it has given me a new layer with that fill in it. So what Photoshop has figured out is that this entire green area is a good source of new pixels for the area that need to be filled. What's cool about this new take on content-aware fill is I have control of which places in the image Photoshop is going to sample to generate content to fill my selected area, and those areas are indicated by green. And what you can see now in my preview is that the lens flare is gone, Photoshop has successfully filled that area with the right content. Then over here, a preview of the area that is covered by the green. So this looks a little confusing at first, I've got a toolbar over here, I've got this shot of my image with my selection, and for some reason this big green thing. I'm going to go up here to Edit, and choose Content-Aware fill and that's going to take me into this completely-separate content-aware environment, or content-aware fill environment. Adobe has revamped Content-Aware Fill and added a very important capability. Now, you may be familiar Content-Aware Fill from previous versions of Photoshop, which does a spectacular job of figuring out what should go inside of a selection. If I had, I could've simply hung my hand up in front of the lens to shade the lens, and probably prevented it. And I'm going to start with this big flare up at the top, which I really should've spotted while I was shooting, but I don't know why I didn't. So I've got this open here in Photoshop CC 2019. Since I made that course, Adobe has released a new version of Photoshop, which has some changes to an existing tool that make it much easier to remove lens flares, and I want to just show that to you here today. I hadn't made the decision at that point. And during the process of working on that image, I point out the lens flares, and I say that maybe I'll get rid of them later and maybe I won't. In that course, I do some work on this image right here. I recently released a new course called Enhancing Landscape Photography with Lightroom and Photoshop, wherein I explain how to, I don't even need to finish that sentence, it's about editing landscape images with Lightroom and Photoshop.

How to remove lens flare