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Transform without distorting using Content Aware Scale and Move

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Transform without distorting using Content Aware Scale and Move

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- [Instructor] Photoshop's Content Aware Scale and Content Aware Move Tools can help us scale images without distorting important elements, as well as reposition objects and automatically fill in the areas that were left behind. In the house image, I'm going to change the background into a layer by clicking on the lock icon, and then I'll choose edit and Content Aware Scale. However, as I drag this to scale it, we can see that the constrain proportions are on by default. So I'll undo that and I'll click in between the width and the height to unlock that. Now, as I move the right hand anchor point towards the left, we can see that Photoshop is scaling the image, but it's not distorting the house. Instead, it's trying to scale down the areas that have lower frequencies like the clouds in the background area, and it's leaving areas like the roof and the building alone that have those higher frequencies. If we go to the…

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