From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
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Content-Aware Move and Scale tools - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
Content-Aware Move and Scale tools
- [Instructor] Photoshop has two tools that can help us to scale images without distorting important elements, as well as reposition objects and automatically fill in the area that was left behind. I'm going to start with this image of the house. We can see there is a guide in it because I want to transform this or scale it so that it fits into a 1:1 aspect ratio. If your guides aren't showing you can go under the view menu and then choose to show your guides. I need to convert the background into a layer. So I'll click on the lock icon. And then from the edit menu, I'll choose Content-Aware Scale. Now, by default, as I start scaling this, Photoshop is going to constrain the proportions of the image. So in order to change that I'm going to unlock by clicking on the link icon right here, or you could hold down the shift key as you drag. So now we can see that as I scale this to fit that 1:1 aspect ratio, Photoshop is…
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