- Protect the skin tones. Go up to
the options bar and click the little
icon. That little dude protects the
skin tones by ruling out all warm
colors from the scaling equation,
which eliminates the stretching in
the woman’s skin, shirt, and bril-
liantly scarlet hair. But it leaves her
white slacks scaled more dispropor-
tionately than ever, producing the
tragic MC Hammer pants pictured
in Figure 8-38. - Make the image shorter and skin-
nier. Drag the top handle down
until the thighs return to their orig-
inal dimensions, which I found to
be about midway between the fully
stretched image and the original
one. Then drag the left handle to
the right as far as you can without
reducing the length of the wom-
an’s arms or legs. Once the image
looks more or less like the one in
Figure 8-39, press Enter or Return
to apply your edits. Figure 8-38.
Figure 8-39.Content-Aware Scaling 289