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Auto-fill with Content-Aware Crop

Auto-fill with Content-Aware Crop - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2023 Essential Training

Auto-fill with Content-Aware Crop

- One of the problems that can arise when straightening an image using the Crop tool is that, by default, the Crop tool shrinks the marquee to fit inside of the document. Let's take a look. I'm going to tap the C key to select the Crop tool. And I'll right-click in order to reset the tool, or we could click on the Clear icon. Then, I'm going to hold down the Command key on Mac or the Control key on Windows. That will temporarily give me the Straighten tool. And I can just drag out in order to straighten the horizon. But we can see that Photoshop has moved the crop inwards, so we're actually cropping off part of our photograph. Well, if I want to make use of as much of the original photograph as I can and have Photoshop automatically fill in around the edges, then I can enable the Content Aware option. Now, I can make this a little bit larger in order to retain those rocks. And the same down here on the left and at the top.…

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