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Freehand Tool
and just draw around the object, making sure it's a closed shape (you end the drawing on the start
point).
The pink areas of the mask are the 'protected' areas, and so this mask needs to be inverted (you are
trying to protect the area you drew around, not the outside area), so click the 'Invert Mask' button on
the InfoBar or select "Window" > "Invert mask
".
Now when you use the Prepare
button this area will be protected from distortion.
You may need to select the photo to enable the Prepare button. In the Photo Tool
you can do this just by clicking on the picture.
Note:
You can't mask more than half the image. The prepare operation will give an error if you try this.
Adjusting a mask, or adding a new mask
You can't add a mask to an image that has already been stretched. Instead, if you want to add a new
mask or adjust an existing one, you have these options:
1.
Click the Reset button and draw a new mask
2.
Click undo as many times as necessary to get back the mask, and then use the normal drawing
tools to adjust the mask shapes.
3.
Or, before you select the Prepare buttons, copy the mask to the clipboard. If you want to use
this later, perform a Reset on the image, then re-enable mask mode and past the shape back
onto the mask layer.
There is another alternative that you can 'fix' a stretched image using the Optimize
feature, and then apply a new mask. This is not recommended in most cases because it will produce
lower quality results than resetting the image and applying a mask to the original image.
Content-aware photo zoom
An alternative to content aware scaling is the whereby the photo remains the same size and the content is
intelligently zoomed inside it. Here's an example of the effect.
Use the zoom slider on the Infobar to control
content-aware photo zoom.
The picture remains the same size, but the program automatically detects and scales (zooms) the
'interesting' content. Note this is not just a crop of the girl, but that every element, cloud, and grass that
appears in the original is still there in the zoomed version. The program automatically detects the surfer is
the 'region of interest' and so enlarges him only.
Another example:
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