Finally, Do Magic With Content Aware
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Finally, Do Magic With Content Aware

on Jun 15th 2011 with 32 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 9 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 25 of 29 in the Photoshop Basix Session
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Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world’s #1 Photoshop site, we’ve published a lot of tutorials. So many, in fact, that we understand how overwhelming our site may be to those of you who may be brand new to Photoshop. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start working in Photoshop.

Photoshop Basix, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak includes 25 short video tutorials, around 5 – 10 minutes in length that will teach you all the fundamentals of working with Photoshop. Today’s tutorial, Part 25: Finally, Do Magic With Content Aware will explain Photoshop’s Content-aware fill, healing and scaling. Let’s get started!

 
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Martin is a Hungarian graphic designer, digital artist and an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor (Design Master). He is currently teaching and working in London but usually travels around the UK and share his love for Adobe products and graphic design. You can follow him on his blog or on Twitter.  

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  • Nikola Nedevski

    that is .. soooooo amazing :X

  • http://www.naveedahmed.in Naveed

    Yes, this is magic. And thanks Martin for the awesome series.

  • jproxs

    wow !! now i’m a professional photoshop user : )

  • http://ciucku.deviantart.com Ciucku

    Thank you for taking your time to make this videos , this was an amazing series of video and I hope you’ll make more videos with more advanced tutorials , thank you again:)

  • Andrea

    Goodbyes make me sad. :( I’m going to miss your tutorials Martin, I wish there were more. Thanks so much for all the free lessons, I learned a tremendous lot and I now enjoy using Photoshop more! Cheers!

  • http://www.tutorialsfreephotoshop.com kalabilla

    very well done

  • http://tutness.tumblr.com tutness

    Martin, it’s been a great pleasure watching your tutorials, I’m sad to see this series ends. Thanks for all the great tips, your way of explaining things and your delivery were a real treat :)

    • Nick

      +1

  • Trevor

    I thoroughly enjoyed all the tutorials and am very much looking forward to the next 25!

  • ninyo

    Great Job! thank you for all the tutorials that you made. Looking forward for more next level tutorials

  • Maisha

    This was a great series with fabulous tips expressed clearly and in bit sized chunks. My boss will think I’m a rock star! Thanks!

  • Kim

    Thanks so much for the easy to understand tutorials you make them seem so easy I look forward to playing around in PS, your pleasant voice makes the tutorials so much more enjoyable.

    Thank you very much and looking forward to seeing the rest of your tutorials :-)

  • Luis

    Amaizing thx for the tutorial.

    Gracias por el tutorial es excelente :D

  • Petr Stojan

    THX Martin for these tutorials. Content Aware is really great tool and as always The Best at the End. :-)

  • http://www.flickr.com/chrisrosendahl Chris Rosendahl

    Thank you so much for making these series, i’m learning so much from it!

    I like that is on point and demonstrated nice and clear, so everybody gets it.

    THANK YOU PSDTUTS+ AND MARTIN!

    - Chris R.

    Check me out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisrosendahl/

  • http://www.antsmagazine.com Nahid

    Man this is awesome and it has to be tried with variety of images. Yeah its definitely a magic, thank you photoshop, Martin and psd tuts. Its very exciting to see this tut but I know I am not gonna get this at one shot but will definitely try till I am perfect at it. Got to feature this on my blog now!…

  • jade bastillada

    you’r n# 1 martin great job, thank you for all the tutorials you made easy to understand.thank psd tutorial- and martin

  • http://www.designerist.ch Designerist

    This is the mountain top of this series – amazing.
    Thank you very much, Martin, for all your work you put on this series.

  • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
    Author

    Thanks a lot Everyone for the lovely comments! I really appreciate your feedback and I promise I will come back with more soon :) Keep up the great work with Photoshop guys!!!

    • Deepak

      You made a promise here and we are waiting for your comeback….
      Thanks that you are coming back again….

  • Dave

    Hey martin I know this has nothing to do with this tutorial but, I have this problem with photoshop it won’t start and it shows a error message that says “Could not initialize Photoshop because the preferences file was invalid (it has been deleted).” If you could, please help me I’ve tried everything I know to get it working I even uninstalled it and reinstalled it, and it still didn’t help. PLEASE HELP!!!

    • Dave

      Nevermind I figured it out, you just gotta press command+option+shift

  • http://www.psdbox.com Andrei Oprinca

    Absolutely awesome. There were a few awesome tricks which I didn’t know about the Content Aware option Thanx.

  • http://www.wokaway.ro/ wok away

    I found that Content-aware with fill, healing and scaling and ohther things to be the hardest. I mean i stayed about three days to retouch a photo of my family.

  • http://www.technicalarea.co.uk Nick

    You forgot to show how to use the protect feature when you are doing content-aware scale. Other than that, it was an awesome tutorial.

  • Farnerud

    That was amazing!!! Thanks a lot, Martin. Great job.

  • Susan

    I am not sure where one get the source files for the tutorials- the photos that Martin use? I thought I should subscribe to the Premium Package, but so far I cannot find the relevant files. Do I have to use my own?

    Please help!

  • Rekha Shyam

    Hi Martin.. not this one but the entire series has been like MAGIC…Thanx a lot for ur lovely tuts…ur

    explanations were crystal clear…hope to c and hear more of ur tuts…

  • Michelle

    Wow! Fantastic Tutorials! Even though I knew most of it, I still learned a TON.

    Thanks!

  • http://daxisdesign.com Jessica Lee

    Oh, wow…this is really amazing! I’ve had no idea that Photoshop can do this!

    I was trying to figure out how to turn portrait image to landscape without making it out-of-proportion, etc. Then I found this tutorial of yours…this is exactly what I was looking for!

    Thank you very much! I’ve watched several video tutorials by you and I love every single one of them. Very easy to understand. :)

  • http://quiwebsite.com someone

    thank you for this tutorial sir

  • Deepak

    Every ends are new beginings and I hope to see Martin again in new beginings …..Intermediate Photoshop…
    May be…
    The lessons that I learned here were very intresting and i am begging you to come with another series again Martin…

    Really Loved psd.tutsplus
    Thankyou