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Extending the canvas with Content Aware Scale

Extending the canvas with Content Aware Scale

From the course: Photo Tools Weekly

Extending the canvas with Content Aware Scale

- Hello, and welcome to another episode of Photo Tools Weekly. Thanks for joining me again. This week, in this week's episode, we'll take a look at how we can use Content-Aware Scale in order to change the composition and the canvas size in our images. We'll be working with three different examples so I can show you a few different options. So without further delay, let's dive right in. Here goes! With this first photograph, we'll take a look at how we can first modify the canvas size, and then second, use Content-Aware Scale to change the composition. All right, well, here you can see, we have a photograph, the picture of my friend. And what I'm going to do is go to the Image pulldown menu and choose Canvas Size. When we click on Canvas Size, it will open up our Canvas Size dialog. In this dialog, we can choose an option like Percent and say, "Hey, you know what? "I actually want to have this canvas to be 200%, "twice as wide as it is currently." You know, if I click OK here, what…

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