Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Content Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS 4 Tutorial and Workflow

Of course I'm already rendering in CS 5 as you know , but this is about the CS4 version, implementing the so-called CONTENT AWARE SCALING option, which sounds like a weird bank account, but really is very cool.

As I was typing this John Wayne Jr. shot me an email (haha shot me an email ) asking me to resize some of the shots used in the western When The Deputy Shot the Sheriff Twice In the Head , as they are going to be projected on the Moon for a couple of days as part of the promotion of the remake ( though calls with Gorge Zucas have been made for a sequel or 7 too)

As a demonstration here follows an image that could use some of that scaling :



What we have here are two peaks and just what we need since we're going to content awarely resize our image here after some cloning and level commando's that are just what Photoshop was made for, the rest just tries to justify the price of the rapidshare account you ordered to download the proggie.

Of course I work on only one layer since layers are for n00bs and cakes.

Now, going to FILTER , RENDER , CONTENT AWARE SAVINGS I get this menu full of options, which are there just to distract you, all pro's know that after some good cloning and levels all you need is press AUTO and save your image in Adobe RGB since then the client will KNOW you're a PRO and not to be messed with. Public secret is that if you deliver in ADOBE RGB the client will not wait those three months or years to pay.


So, after such workflow we get the image John is looking for ready for projection on the Moon here:







The filter is very smart, it is aware some dude called James Jameson is hiding behind those peaks with some green alien fish and since the resizing would take out that data now it's there for everyone to see.Ho ho , if they only knew back in the days the movie was shot, they would prolly have held some bbq's and shot a sequel to the movie X-files with Gorge Zucas senior.

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