Adobe content aware scaling tutorial

So now make sure you click on RGB and you should see of these being highlighted and see the little Eyedropper there, by Quick Mask? Turn that off and now it is there but it is hidden. So we are going to go back to our layers and you should see that. Now if that layer looks kind of weird, make sure you click on RGB.

I have fallen for that many times myself. Now we are going to go and do exactly what we did before. We are going to choose Edit and now, we are going to go down to the Content Aware Scale but before we start dragging, we are going to go up here where it says Protect and if you go under there, there is our quick mask copy. Now, you can create it anywhere you want. And watch what happens. Now, as I drag, notice it will not distort our area. See that? You know, so we might bring it down to about here to change that aspect ratio a little bit and notice that it protects the areas that we want to protect.

Now of course, if you wanted to protect the trees and things like that, you could do that as well. Now, I am going to show you how well this works. And if you look at this, we have got two people doing a chest-bump but they are kind of far apart. We are going to unlock it, unlocks the layer, so it is not a locked background anymore.

Choose Edit, Content Aware Scale and watch this. Now, we can click and drag it all the way across and you can see, it is really amazing, how well Content Aware Scale works. So anyway guys, I have grabbed these photos from Adobe Stock and I encourage you to go and grab some photos from there. In fact, I will give you a link underneath and it will give you 10 free images from Adobe Stock. Also if you are a Photographer and you would like to sell your photos, you can also do that on Adobe Stock.

For a video tutorial, see Photoshop and Content-Aware Scale. Reference Point Location. Click a square on the reference point locator to specify the fixed point around which the image is scaled. By default this point is at the center of the image. Click the button to specify the new position of the reference point in relation to its current position. Reference Point Position. Positions the reference point at the specific location.

Enter X-axis and Y-axis pixel dimensions. Scaling Percentage. Specifies the image scaling as a percentage of the original size. Enter a percentage for the width W and height H. Paint with the Sampling Brush Tool in the document window to add or remove sampled image areas used to fill the selection. Use either the Lasso Tool or Polygonal Lasso Tool to change or modify your original selection fill area in the document window.

To learn more, see Select with the lasso tools. When you change the selection, the sampling area gets reset but the previous brush strokes are preserved.

The selection also gets updated in the document when you exit the Content-Aware Fill workspace after committing the fill. Hand Tool : Pan over different parts of the image in the document window and the Preview panel.

You can quickly toggle to the Hand Tool by holding the 'Spacebar' key while using any other tool. Zoom Tool : Magnify or reduce the view of the image in the document window or the Preview panel. To learn more, see Zoom in or out. To change magnification level in the Preview panel, drag the zoom slider at the bottom of the panel or manually type a zoom percentage value in the text box.

You can adjust the following settings in the Content-Aware Fill panel. Show Sampling Area. Select this option to show the sampling area or the excluded area as an overlay on the image in the document window.

Sets the opacity of the overlay displayed in the document window. To adjust the opacity, drag the slider or type a percentage value in the text box. Assigns color to the overlay displayed in the document window. Click the color selection box and then choose a color from Adobe Color Picker. Shows the overlay in the sampling or the excluded area. Choose an option from the drop-down list - Sampling Area or Excluded Area.

Determine the sampling area in your image where you want Photoshop to look for source pixels to fill content. Select this option to manually define a sampling area. Protect Skin Tones. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Buy now. User Guide Cancel. Make it. Important Important:. Resize images and protect content. Preserve visual content when scaling images. Specify any of the following in the options bar:. Chooses an alpha channel that specifies an area to protect. Attempts to preserve regions that contain skin-tones.