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Using Content-Aware Crop - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop One-on-One: Fundamentals
Using Content-Aware Crop
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to take advantage of content-aware crop, which is going to take those wedges, those transparent wedges that we saw a moment ago, and automatically fill them with new pixels. So this is a little bit of Photoshop magic. And notice here we are looking at the original flat version of the crooked photograph. And so I'll go ahead and grab my crop tool, which you can get by pressing the C key, and I'll drag this bottom edge down so we can measure the horizon, and now I'll drag outside the boundary. You don't want to drag so far outside you end up seeing the arrow cursor. So make sure you're seeing the rotate cursor instead. And now you want to drag the top edge back upward. And I'm going to go a little bit too far, actually quite a bit too far, so that I'm inventing new sky. Now, content-aware is really good with sky. It's not so good with rocks and other very identifiable features.…
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Too many pixels1m 39s
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Introducing Photoshop’s Crop tool2m 52s
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Cropping without deleting any pixels3m 45s
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Aspect ratio and other tricks5m 5s
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Working with the reference point3m 31s
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Finessing a crop with Canvas Size4m 58s
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Using Content-Aware Crop2m 38s
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Two ways to use the Straighten tool4m 6s
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Straightening with the Ruler tool2m 57s
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Cropping away all transparent pixels5m 9s
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Cropping and straightening in Camera Raw5m 24s
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Using the Perspective Crop tool3m 4s
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Cropping everything outside the canvas3m 13s
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