From the course: Photoshop 2022 Essential Training
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Transform without distorting using Content-Aware Scale and Move - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2022 Essential Training
Transform without distorting using Content-Aware Scale and Move
- [Instructor] Photoshop's Content-Aware Scale and Move tools can help us to scale images without distorting important elements, as well as reposition objects and automatically fill in areas that were left behind. I'm going to begin by converting this background into a Layer by clicking on the Lock icon. And then I want to view a guide that I've already dragged out into the image. So I'll choose to show guides. So let's imagine that we need to scale this image so that it fits within this square image instead of the entire rectangular image. In order to do so, I'm going to choose the Edit menu and then Content-Aware Scale. If I start dragging one of the handles, the constrain proportions is on by default. So I'm going to hold down the Shift key and then drag in order to distort the image as I drag. Now as I drag this over, we can see that Photoshop is trying to intelligently scale this image. So it's trying to scale…
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