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Transform without distorting with Content-Aware Scale and Move

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Transform without distorting with Content-Aware Scale and Move

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Photoshop's Content-Aware Scale and Content-Aware 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 changing the background into a layer by clicking on the lock icon. And then I'll choose the Edit menu, and then Content-Aware Scale. Let's say that I want to change the aspect ratio of this image from 2x3 to a square, but I don't want to distort the house. I'm going to unlock the constraint between the width and height, and then start dragging the anchor point on the right-hand side over to the left. So when we use the Content-Aware Scale, Photoshop is trying to scale down those areas that have lower frequencies, like the clouds in the background area and the grass in the foreground area, and leave areas like the roof and the building alone. Now if I go too far, we will see that the house does start to become distorted. But if we wanted to compare the…

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