Content Aware Crop In Photoshop Tutorial
Hi guys, Colin Smith here from Photoshop Cafe.
You might have seen some of the sneaks and today, I'm going to show you Content Aware
Crop inside of Photoshop.
Hey Cafe crew, thanks for watching.
This week, I'm going to show you the Content Aware Crop.
Now, this is great for photographs, for when you're straightening them to fill in those
little edges and things like that, and, also, where I love this is for panoramas.
I love doing panoramas and this is another tool to make panoramas a lot better and a
lot easier to work on.
So let's jump in and have a look at it right now.
All right, let's have a look at the automatic Content Aware Tool.
So we got Content Aware Crop and we've also got it for merging panoramas.
So let's start with cropping.
So here we have a photograph that's crooked and we want to straighten it up.
So this is, actually, I shot this, I think, in Laguna Beach.
And I'm just going to grab my little Crop Tool here and to straighten it, we grab the
Straighten Tool, and just simply drag it along the horizon, and then, we release it.
Now, here's a problem with that.
Look at this, when we've got this set to Delete Crop Pixels, notice this, it's actually going
to throw away all these information there in our photograph.
We're not going to get those edges because it needs to crop to those edges, but, however,
we can extend beyond that.
So if we take these corners and drag them out, and we'll drag out the other corner here,
and we want to include the whole photographóso there we go, we've got thatóthe problem with
that is look at all these areas where there's no information, so these will be just filled
in with white, and, previously, we'd have to go in and we'd have to manually try to
fix this.
But, now, if we turn on the Content Aware, so this Content Aware Fill is actually going
to fill in these little gaps and let's make sure that we take it all the way out to the
edges, so we're going to make it hard for this.
Let's do that right there, and then, we click Apply the Crop and look what's going to happen
here.
So Photoshop here is actually going to automatically fill those edges with Content Aware Fill and
look at that.
So there we go.
We've got a nice crop there and we haven't lost any of the information around the edges
of our photograph, so it actually just created those little edges for us.
And if you get an area there, where it looks a little hairy or a little weird, it's no
big deal.
Just make a selection around it, shift the lead for Content Aware Fill and then just
click OK, and you can just fill it good.
Touch it up manually.
So there we go.
So that saves a lot, otherwise, we'd have this little bit in the middle there and all
of that will be gone.
Let's look at the second use for this is when we're working in a panorama.
So what we're going to do is we're going to automate and we're going to merge, choose
the Photo Merge option, which is where we do panos, and we'll just use Auto, and we're
going to browse.
So I've got this mural that I shot in Chicago and I'm going to select the four images there
we're going to make it panorama.
Click Open and, now, what we're going to do is we're going to choose the Blend Them Together,
yes we do want to do that, but we also want to do Content Aware Fill on the Transparent
Areas, so we're going to click OK.
And this is going to create a panorama, but it's also going to fill in the edges.
And the other thing that Adobe has done too is they've actually made the algorithm work
even better for Content Aware Fill like this than it would be trying to do it manually
afterwards.
So you can see around the edges there, those are the areas that would have been just not
in transparent pixels and it's filled that in.
So you can see it's done a pretty good job.
There's a couple of areas that might need a little bit of work.
I see that area there.
I can make a selection there and just drag it over there.
Actually, why don't we do this with the Patch Tool, so let's grab the Patch Tool, make the
selection there, and we'll go there and fill it in.
And, also, it's a bit weird here, so why don't we just make a selection around there and
drag that over to there, and release it.
So, as you can see, this Content Aware Crop is a great tool.
It's going to save you a lot of time and, also, it's going to get you some really great
results very quickly.
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