Content-Aware Tools In Photoshop

Photoshop is one of the most widely used photo-editing software packages in the world.

- Ashok Kandimalla

Ashok Kandimalla has been in the photographic field for over three decades and has extensive experience in both film and digital photography. Being an electronics engineer by profession and a photographer, he possesses a unique and deep insight into the technical aspects of digital photography and equipment. He has published more than a 100 articles on photography and some of his writings have also been published in the well-known international magazine Popular Photography.

An avid collector of photographic books and vintage cameras, Ashok has a keen interest in the history of photography and a passion for sharing his knowledge on photography through teaching and writing. He is the only Indian photographer to be featured on the Nikon Centenary website. He is presently working as a Management and Engineering consutant. He can be reached at kashokk@ gmail.com.

Over the years, advances in software and hardware technologies allowed developers to add new features to it. One set of such features, is the ContentAware Tools that provide some smart editing capabilities that would have been considered impossible, just a few years ago. There are many tools under this category, but, due to the shortage of space, let us look at three of these with some examples showing their application. These are

1. Content-Aware Crop

2. Content-Aware Fill

3. Content-Aware Scale

Content-Aware Crop