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Autofill with Content-Aware Crop - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
Autofill with Content-Aware Crop
- [Instructor] 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 the document and we might want to make use of the maximum number of pixels that we have in the original file. So let's select the crop tool by tapping the C key, and then I'm going to right click to reset the tool. On that that would be a control click if you don't have a two button mouse. Then I'll just position my cursor outside of the crop marquee and click and drag in order to rotate it to straighten. And I'm just using the windows of that farmhouse for reference. But we can see that by default it has constrained the crop to within the original canvas. So let's go ahead and just drag to drag and make this a bit larger. Now I'm incorporating all of the original pixels from the photograph. But if I apply the crop now then I'm just going to end up with a…
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