Page 405 - Xara Designer Pro X17

The Photo Tools 405

Here the photo has
been stretched using
the normal stretching
method of the
SELECTOR TOOL.
Even with this
moderate stretching
it's obvious the
proportions of the
gate have been
badly distorted.

Stretching using Content Aware Scaling. It still looks perfectly natural. The gate proportions are
intact, even at this extreme stretch, which is twice as wide as the original. The stretched
coastline remains looking natural.
Preparing Your Photo

The content aware scaling feature is part of the PHOTO TOOLS.

Select your photo and from the Photo Tool fly-out bar. Select the CONTENT
AWARE SCALING BUTTON. The right end of the InfoBar will now show a set of
buttons.

Select a photo, go into the PHOTO TOOL, and the InfoBar should look like this;
First click the PREPARE button to prepare the photo for the scaling. This starts an analysis
of the photo to calculate which parts of the image can be stretched and which parts
should be kept. This process can take some time depending on the resolution of the
photo, and how many processors your computer has.

For really high resolution images it's recommended that the image resolution be reduced
if you do not require the maximum resolution. Do this before you select the Prepare
buttons. To reduce the resolution of your photo select the OPTIMIZE button and enter a