Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill

A quickly done removal using Content-Aware Fill. The Healing Brush and Clone Stamp are
usually necessary additions to Content-Aware Fill to touch up little things like the shadows seen in the  right photo

Content-Aware is a feature added to the newest edition of Photoshop (CS5). It allows users to manipulate pixels similar to the healing brush but with less work for the user. You simply use your favorite selection tool to select an area of the photo you don’t want there. Then you go to Edit, Fill and a dialogue box comes up. As you see in the tutorial below, Content-Aware Fill should be selected in the drop down menu. Hit okay, and Photoshop analyzes the photo to determine how to best replace the selected area. It is always astounding how accurately and quickly Photoshop is able to remove objects—it performs work in mere seconds that would take hours for someone to do by hand. The Healing Brush and Clone Stamp are usually a good follow-up to Content-Aware Fill just to clean up any artifacts left.