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Day 13: The Content Aware Crop Tool in Photoshop

And with the launch of brand new Adobe Photoshop 2015.5, here comes a new feature that is Content Aware Crop Tool in Photoshop. Gone are the days when you need to crop your image a little bit whenever you rotate a photo. Before I dive deeper into this tutorial, let me tell you about the feature that came with Photoshop 2015.5., i.e. The brand new Face Liquify Tool.

So let’s begin with the tutorial.

What is Content-Aware Crop Tool?

Wondering?

Remember when you used to rotate a photo in Photoshop, Photoshop crops the image a little bit. If you don’t remember it, look at the screenshot below.

Look at the area that is enclosed within yellow color. To keep every single detail and maintain aspect ratio in a photo, Photoshop crops out some part.

Now look at the same image with Content-Aware turned on.

Now let’s find out how to use this tool.

Step 1: Activate the Crop Tool

Grab the Crop Tool from the tool panel or press Shift+C again and again until it comes.

Step 2: Turn on Content Aware Crop

As the image is skewed, we need to straighten it. But before we click on Straighten, are you seeing the Content Aware checkbox at the far right? Did it use be there?

Well, no!

After turning Content Aware on, click on Straighten.

Step 3: Draw a Horizontal Line

Now draw a line along the something that needs to be perfectly horizontal.

In the below image, the place where grass and trees are meeting must be horizontal. After drawing a line, Photoshop will show you the angle by which an image is skewed. In my case, the image is skewed by 4.1 degrees.

Press Return/Enter. And that’s it. Give few seconds to Photoshop.

And Photoshop has straightened your photo by adding extra added pixels to it. Isn’t that awesome?

Let’s move to the next page where I’ll tell you where this tool fails.

Areas Where Content Aware Crop Tool Fails

As you can see in the above image, the corners of the image are pretty much simple to create. This tool generally fails when the corners of the photo are complex to create. Just look at the photo below.

Look how Photoshop messed up the image by filling the space with Content-Aware tool.

But as I always said, something is better than nothing. At least Adobe thought of adding this feature.

Time to wrap up this tutorial.

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Face Liquify Tool in Photoshop- Change that Face Structure

Hey, guys! It’s been a while since I wrote any tutorial, and your patience has paid off because of the introduction of brand new Photoshop 2015.5. Yes, it’s 2016 and I am also wondering why Adobe didn’t go with 2016 in its name. But let’s not go deep into it. It’s a multi-billion dollar company, and I know there must be some reason behind this name. Let’s get directly into the brand new Face Liquify Tool in Photoshop.

Before we go further, let me show you the Before and After photo.

Step 1: Open Liquify Tool

After opening your photo, the first thing you need to do is to open the Liquify tool. You can do it by either going to Filter>Liquify or by pressing Cmd+Shift+X/Ctrl+Shift+X.

The first thing that you need to do after that is to choose Face Tool or press A.

You’ll notice two beautiful lines surrounding the face.

Step 2: Get to Know the Properties

Now let’s get into the properties of Face Liquify Tool in Photoshop.

1: Face Shape

The best thing is that you don’t have to look at the right-hand side of your screen to deal with those sliders. Every single thing can be done within the image itself.

Simply hover your mouse over the edge of the face and Photoshop will automatically pop up the line to change the face shape.

You’ll find four points associated with face shape:

Forehead: Used to increase or decrease the size of the forehead

Chin Height: Used to increase or decrease the size of the chin

Jawline: Pretty cool feature. Can alter jawline of a face

Face Width: Changes the width of a face

2: Enhance Your Eyes with Face Liquify Tool in Photoshop

Time to learn how to make beautiful eyes even more beautiful. Simply hover your mouse over the eyes. You can do with either of the eyes, and the same result will reflect in another eye as well.

Eye Size: Used to increase or decrease the size of eyes

Eye Height: Used to increase or decrease the height of eyes

Eye Width: Used to increase or decrease the width of eyes

Eye Tilt: Used to tilt eyes

Eye Distance: Used to increase or decrease the distance between the two eyes. You need to use the slider for this option. 🙁

3. Nose – Now You Don’t Have to Pay $45k for Your Nose Job

Time to make the nose better.

Nose Width: Used to increase or decrease the width of the nose

Nose Height: Used to increase or decrease the height of the nose

4. Mouth – Make Your Smile Better

You know that Face Liquify tool can’t get any better when it comes with a feature to enhance your smile. You can even make a dull person smile with this feature. Of course, it does much more to your mouth than a smile.