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How to fix tilted photos without cropping in Photoshop

Have you ever tried straightening a tilted photo? Typically, you must crop the photo since it leaves empty space. However, Photoshop can fill in those empty spaces realistically. Here’s how to straighten the horizon without cropping. Content-Aware Crop Content-Aware Crop automates filling in empty space after cropping. This can occur

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How to remove people from your background in Photoshop

Sometimes it doesn’t matter how patient you are — you can be waiting hours for people to get out of your shot in particular landscapes or tourist areas. Annoying yes, but there is a way to quickly and easily fix it. So how do you remove people from your background

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Expanding your frame in Photoshop — Content-aware fill

Another way to expand your frame, or remove unwanted areas in Photoshop is using the lasso tool plus the fill, or the new Content-aware fill options. Sometimes we have unwanted objects in our frame, or in the case of the below image my background didn’t quite cover all I needed,

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How to fill in gaps and expand your frame

I thought I would put together a three-part tutorial taking a single image from start to finish. For part one, I am going to look at filling in gaps in your background and how to expand your frame beyond the original image. Photoshop’s Content-Aware tool is perfect for just those

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Remove objects in your video with Content-Aware Fill

The Content-Aware Fill feature in After Effects helps you remove unwanted objects in your video footage. Removal is quick and easy! Simply mask the area you want to remove. Create keyframes for your mask positions if the areas are moving in your video. Set the mask to the Subtract mode

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First look: AI Structure in Luminar 4

Skylum has announced yet another new feature for its upcoming Luminar 4 software — AI Structure. I was lucky enough to get an early look at the new tool that’s coming to the platform with the Luminar 4 release this fall. Whether it be landscapes, people or even food shots,

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How to use Photoshop’s new Content-Aware Crop Tool

Adobe added a content-aware fill option to the crop tool making it a one step process to crop and fill in blank canvas space around an image. It doesn’t sound too exciting at first until you use it. The content-aware function has been upgraded and is ‘up to 3X faster

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Instant Replay: The Future of Photoshop and Must Know Techniques

Bryan O’Neil Hughes and Howard Pinsky join Melissa Niu and Rich Harrington to discuss the state and future of Photoshop. Bryan, the Senior Product Manager for Photoshop at Adobe, helps us understand how the Photoshop team works, and Rich and Howard demonstrate must know techniques, all hosted by Melissa Niu.

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Resizing a photo with Content-Aware scaling

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 19 The Content-Aware scaling feature is a way to intelligently

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How to Master Content Aware Fill

This Friday we have a great Google+ hangout all about Photoshop and digital imaging. You can sign up here and watch for free. One of our guests is Bryan O’Neil Hughes Senior Product Manager for Photoshop. Here’s a sample tutorial from Bryan Avoid having Content-Aware Fill introduce unwanted details when

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