Graphics Programs Reference
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Step Seven:
The trick is simple: make a selection of the
subject you want to protect (in our case,
the woman), save that selection, then tell
Photoshop you've saved it, and it then
avoids that selected area like the plague.
So, start by getting whichever selection
tool you're most comfortable with from
the Toolbox, and put a selection around
your subject (here I used the Quick Selec-
tion tool, which if anything, is quick. It's
not the most accurate, but that's okay for
what we need to do here). Once your se-
lection is in place, go under the Select
menu and choose
Save Selection
. When
the Save Selection dialog appears, just
click OK, and now you can deselect by
pressing
Command-D (PC: Ctrl-D)
.
Step Eight:
Next, go under the Edit menu and
choose Content-Aware Scale. All you
have to do now is tell Photoshop that
you have a saved selection (called an
Alpha channel). To the left of the Pro-
tect Skin Tones button up in the Options
Bar, you'll see a Protect pop-up menu.
From that menu, choose
Alpha 1
(your
saved selection), and now Content-Aware
Scale knows exactly what not to stretch.
So, grab the side handles, drag way in,
and you'll notice that it keeps our subject
intact and squishes the background in
around her instead.
