Content-aware scaling – Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 v.14.xx User Manual
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Content-aware scaling
Reference Point Location
Use Relative Positioning For Reference Point
Resize images and protect content
Preserve visual content when scaling images
Specify content to protect when scaling
Resize images and protect content
Content-Aware Scale resizes an image without changing important visual content such as people, buildings, animals, and so forth. While normal
scaling affects all pixels uniformly when resizing an image, content-aware scaling mostly affects pixels in areas that don’t have important visual
content. Content-Aware Scale lets you upscale or downscale images to improve a composition, fit a layout, or change the orientation. If you
want to use some normal scaling when resizing your image, there is an option for specifying a ratio of content-aware scaling to normal scaling.
If you want to preserve specific areas when scaling an image, Content-Aware Scale lets you use an alpha channel to protect content during
resizing.
Content-Aware Scaling works on layers and selections. Images can be in RGB, CMYK, Lab, and Grayscale color modes as well as all bit
depths. Content-Aware Scaling doesn’t work on adjustment layers, layer masks, individual channels, Smart Objects, 3D layers, Video layers,
multiple layers simultaneously, or layer groups.
A. Original image B. Scaled narrower C. Scaled narrower, using content-aware scaling
For a video on content-aware scaling, see
. (Discussion of this feature begins at the four-minute mark.)
Preserve visual content when scaling images
1. (Optional) Choose Select > All if you’re scaling a Background layer.
2. Choose Edit > Content-Aware Scale.
3. Specify any of the following in the options bar:
Click a square on the reference point locator
to specify the fixed point around which the image is scaled.
By default this point is at the center of the image.
Click the button to specify the new position of the reference point in relation to its
current position.
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