How To Use The CONTENT-AWARE CROP - Crop and Straighten Photos in Photoshop Video Lecture | Mastering Adobe Photoshop CC 2017: Step by Step Tutorials - Design

In this video, I'm going to show you how to
use the Content-Aware Crop.
Hey everyone.
Welcome to the Photoshop Training Channel.
My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find
me on Instagram @JRfromPTC.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how
to use the Crop Tool with Content-Aware.
We have this image here and you can see that
the image does not have a straight horizon
line; it's at an angle.
So what we're going to do is click on the
Crop Tool and click on the Straighten Tool.
Currently, we have "Delete Cropped Pixels"
unchecked and "Content Aware" unchecked.
We'll leave it like this for now.
I'm going to click on the Straighten Tool,
then click and drag on the horizon line, follow
it along to the other side, and release once
you get to the other side.
Photoshop will then try to straighten this
image, and once it does, you can just hit
Enter or Return on the Mac, and notice that
now, we have a straight horizon.
The downside is that we lost a lot of the
pixels that were invisible.
If I click on the Crop Tool and then click
on one of the handles, you'll see that we
rotated the image to make the horizon straight,
but the reason we crop in was because we had
these transparent pixels and Photoshop just
cropped so that we could only have the visible
pixels.
So, we lost a lot of the image by straightening
it and then cropping it.
What we can do instead is check Content Aware,
then I'm going to click and drag on the horizon
line with the Straighten Tool released when
I get to the other side.
This time, it also rotates the image, but
you can control what areas you want Photoshop
to fill in.
So, Photoshop is going to fill in the transparent
areas that we're selecting here, so I'm just
going to just leave it like this for now and
click on the check mark.
Notice that Photoshop would generate the pixels
on the edges that we lost.
So it's essentially doing a Content Aware
Fill.
So, I'm going to click on the Crop Tool.
I can also click and drag up to add more pixels
above the image, in this case, to add more
sky.
I'm going to hit Enter, Return on the Mac,
to commit the changes, and we're going to
do a Content-Aware Fill on the top, which
will introduce more sky.
So we're filling in pixels based on the content
around the transparent areas.
We could also click and drag the handle to
the right to add more sky and some of that
grass and hay.
So, I'm going to tap on the check mark and
there it is.
We added more.
I could also add more to the bottom of the
image, so I'm going to click and drag and
go down.
I'll hit Enter, Return on the Mac, to commit
the changes, and we get more hay down here.
Now this works great in images that don't
have a lot of recognizable detail.
In some areas, it may not work as well.
So, if I click and drag to the left here,
it probably will not look as good just because
of the stack of hay that we have.
It's not terrible, but it's not great.
So this tool does have its limitations, but
you can use it when you straighten your photos
or when you want to add a little more sky.
Remember that this video is part of my Content-Aware
series on YouTube.
I have a playlist that goes through all the
tools using Content Aware.
The link to that playlist is right below this
video.
And that's it for this tutorial.
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