Hi there. In this video we're going to look at how to deal  with all these really random ratios that we're dealing  with in the modern world. This kind of like photo size and this ratio. You look great when we're only dealing with print. But now we've got crazy kind of social media sizes  where they're kind of long and thin or tall and skinny. If you've had to work in banner ads  before, that's even worse.

Skyscrapers and leaderboards. Let's look at ways of generating background from  this here to look. Just made it wider. What if you needed some more  sky jackpot, more sky. So we put loads of texts and graphics and call to actions,  but the client comes back and says, gotta remove the girl. Presto.

She's gone. Loads  of useful fun stuff in this video using the various content  aware features in Photoshop. All right, let's jump in. Let's get our hands dirty. All right, first thing, let's go to file. Let's go to open.

And I've downloaded my exercise files to my desktop. Okay? And in this exercise files folder,  we're gonna open up the file called land  and see, click open. Okay, so we want to extend this to the right, okay? Without distorting it. Okay?

The old school way, just using free transform, uh,  is just gonna like stretch the woman out here  and we don't want that to be stretched. Okay? So I'm gonna hit escape. So the fancy version is under edit. We're gonna go to content aware scale  and we're gonna drag this handle here. The kind of on the right hand side in the middle.

Now the only thing to note here is if you are using the  latest version 2019  or above, you need to hold shift while you drag this side. If you're using 2018 or below, you don't have to hold shift. You're gonna drag it out and look the magic happening. Can you see the, the land  and sea are uh, kind of just getting bigger. The clouds are getting more, but the woman's  staying perfectly still. When you're ready, hit enter on your keyboard  or return Fancy, huh?

Loads more space. So we can add our copy, we can add images,  content to wear scale is magic. Alright, the next bit of Photoshop magic we're going  to do is I want  to generate some more sky rather than just stretching it. Okay? I want to actually just invent some more  and some more land that kind  of goes to the edge of this page. So content to wear scale's not gonna work for us.

I'm gonna show you another content  to wear scale trick, uh, over here. Go to your crop tool. It's the fifth tool down. And what we wanna do, the magic happens  when we turn this one on. Content aware. Now if we drag this up, okay,  it doesn't really matter how high you'd do it.

I'm gonna get mine to exactly 1700  pixels for no good reason. Can't do it. Okay? But get it close to that. If you are using different measurements and it says inches  or millimeters, just get it vaguely. Kind of the same as mine  and nothing's gonna happen until we hit the enter key on my  keyboard or the return key on your keyboard kickback.

Phil happens. Ready? Set. I'm excited. Way. Cool.

Huh? So didn't just kind of stretch it. All these guys are in the same position, but look at that. That's my favorite bit more mountain  just magically appeared. The clouds are pretty good. There's a tiny bit of repeat in them,  But I think nothing that I would be worried about.

So now we've got loads more space for a bit of content. Even if it's just kind of like a background for our website. We've just got loads more empty space to put things. Alright, the continental wear magic isn't over just yet. You're like, how gonna get it any better? I'll show you how.

Grab the rectangle marquee tool, second tool down. Draw a nice liberal rectangle around this lady. The client's come back and said, actually,  we don't want this woman here. We want it to be a bit more abstract. Just all the nature. Don't make the selection too tight.

Then go to edit and go to fill. It should default to content aware. Click okay, get ready to be amazed. Oh, so good. Let's go to select. Let's go to deselect and goodbye lady.

You could do the same thing Now if you had some clouds  that like, it's gonna be different  for everybody every time they run this. So you might have some clouds that you wanna remove. You could do the same thing you don't like, you edit. Feel. Okay. Magic deselect.

Cool, huh? Alright, so that's just some Photoshop magic  to get us limbed up  and excited about the rest of the course. Remember, any of those content  or weird tricks are really useful  for those really weird formats  that we're all kind of faced with. Now, social media, they like to stretch things around. If you're ever doing any banner  advertising, that's the worst. Skyscrapers.

Leaderboards, they were just weird ratios. Really tall and skinny. Photoshop and content aware editing to the rescue. Alright, let's jump into the next video.