The Photoshop Productivity Series: Automating Photoshop

Content-Aware Scale Tool

Sometimes, it works just fine to use Free Transform to scale things down, and other times it doesn’t work and things look squished. In the photo in Figure 2.41 for example, I tried to scale down the photo to make it less wide.

Figure 2.41 The original photo is too wide.

However, if I simple select everything and use Free Transform, the photo just looks squished and unnatural (Figure 2.42).

Figure 2.42 Free Transform creates an unnatural squished effect.

The Content-Aware Scale feature does a better job of this, especially ...