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Step Four:
Choosing this brings up what looks
just like the Free Transform handles
(but these have “special powers”). Now,
do the same thing you just did in Step
Three—drag the left side handle over
to cover the gap on the left, and then
do the same thing on the right side (as
shown here). It knows where your sub-
ject is (and that it's the most important
part), so it only stretches the back-
ground (parts that can be scaled), and
not her (which should not be scaled).
It also expands the area it stretches in
a very smart way, so the image doesn't
look like it has been stretched. If you're
using this on a different image, and it
doesn't recognize that there's a person
in your photo, click the Protect Skin
Tones but ton up in the Options Bar
(shown circled here), and that will alert
Photoshop that there's a person in the
image that it should avoid stretching.
Of course, it can still get confused and
miss that there's a person (or object)
that you don't want stretched, which is
why you'll want to know this next trick.
Step Five:
Before we go on to that, you'll want
to know that you can also use this to
shrink the width of the photo without
distorting your subject (it'll slide her over,
but it won't distort her, which is pretty
amazing—maybe more amazing than the
stretching). You do it the same way: just
go into Content-Aware Scale and click-
and-drag the side handles inward, and the
scene just kind of collapses in around her,
but she stays intact (as seen here). Notice
how the windows are now closer together,
but even they don't look squished? Pretty
amazing, eh? Okay, now on to how to pro-
tect your subject when Photoshop doesn't
recognize which part of the photo is the
important part.
(Continued)
 
 
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