Make an Instructables header

Step 6 Scaling it out

After making the image and dropping it in to the new design it became apparent that the knife was too close to the logo. It was dominating the menu items and I wanted it to be a little more subtle so I needed to move them apart.

For this I used content-aware scaling. By default this scales the picture and keeps the areas with more details intact as the more similar background gets squished or stretched. This wouldn't work since the logo has white areas that got stretched like taffy. Here's how to keep the logo and knife just how we want 'em.

1. Make a selection that includes the elements that you don't want to be altered
2. Save the selection with some fancy name, like "stuff"
3. Select Edit > Content-Aware Scale
4. In the Protect pulldown, select "stuff"
5. Stretch the image

Presto change-o, there's now plenty of room for the menu items to appear.