Master The Image

Come the first week of December, we're planning on releasing a few new DVDs, and while I can't go into specifics, let's just say you are going to want to check them out. Look out for more info coming soon.

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we've just started using CS4 at work, and I also have it at home now. While there are a number of cool new things, probably my most favorite is CAS, or Content Aware Scaling. In short, transforming your image with CAS allows you to stretch or squish the image without it affecting the content. It works really good too, "straight out of the box" if you will. Below is an image I manipulated with CAS.



What is great too, if you don't want a certain area to be affected for sure, you can make a selection around that part, save it as a channel, and then when you go to use CAS, select it in the protect drop down menu, and there you go.

The only thing I've not liked about it is that it is VERY memory intensive, and I'm constantly getting out of memory warnings. I'm still tweaking how I have CS4 setup in hopes to fix that, but haven't been very successful yet.