The Content-Aware Scale command

In this movie I'll introduce you to the final Content-Aware feature, which is Content-Aware Scale.…And what it allows you to do is change the proportions of an image without…harming the details.…So basically you're stretching the background, and you're leaving the foreground unharmed.…So imagine what I want to do with this image is make it about twice as wide as…it is and about half as tall.…So big huge modification and were I to do that using the standard Image Size…command, which does let you stretch images. Then I'd make a pretty big mess of things.…

We'll turn off Constrain Proportions, and I'm looking for this image once I'm…done to be 2000 pixels wide and just 1000 pixels tall let's say, and then I'll…go ahead and click OK, and you can see that I end up stretching the image, and…it looks horribly distorted.…So obviously this isn't the effect I want at all.…I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+Z, or Command+ Z on the Mac, in order to undo that change.…Instead what we need to do is convert this flat image to a floating layer, and…