STEP EIGHT: To create some differentiation between
the two sets of stairs, we’re going to modify the set
on the right side of the canvas. Make sure that layer
is the active layer in the Layers panel and go to
Edit>Content-Aware Scale. This will add a bounding
box with transform controls around that layer. But
instead of distorting when you resize the image,
it will attempt to apply Content-Aware settings to
the details as you resize it, modifying the image in
the process.
Holding Shift, grab the left transform control handleand drag it to the left. Don’t go all the way across,
just enough to overlap the original image by roughly
a third. Now press Enter on your keyboard to apply
the transformation. Content-Aware Scale has some
great uses for resizing images to fit aspect ratios
that don’t match the source image. It even has the
ability to protect people in an image so they don’t
get distorted when you resize a layer. You can learn
more about Content-Aware Scale by clicking here.STEP NINE: There’s clearly an overlapping edge between
our two background images. First, we need to merge
these two background images. With the top stair layer
active, go to Layer>Merge Down, or you can press
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