In a previous article we discussed the use of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS5 feature: Content-aware Scale. In that article our goal was to reasonably crop a panoramic image into an 8×10 aspect ratio for printing. Today’s video tutorial deals with using content-aware scaling to improve composition in an image.
As you can see from watching this video tutorial, cropping doesn’t have to be just edges anymore. You can take your pixels out of the middle to improve composition.
Rikk Flohr © 2010
Thanks to a recent feature of Adobe Photoshop (CS4 and CS5 versions) we can now do magic. Remember back to the previous post, Letterbox or Leave-it-off? I promised you some crop magic to solve our dilemma of fitting a panoramic crop into an 8×10 frame.
For review, this was the 2:1 ratio our customer saw for sale on our website.
And this is the 5:4 or 8×10 image our customer wants to buy. Perhaps it isn’t my original wide-screen vision but, after all, it is a sale…
The video tutorial below will show you how to get here to there.
Buy This Print (8×10 or 8×16)
This above featured print is for sale at the Fleeting Glimpse Gallery. Follow this link. Support Holy Crop! and buy a print-just not an 8×10!
Rikk Flohr © 2010
