Use the brush to highlight areas of the image you want to preserve (people, animals, text, etc.). This prevents the resizing algorithm from inserting or removing pixels in these areas.

Options

Interpolation
Interpolation determines how new pixels are created when expanding the image. Generally Bicubic interpolation produces the best results however it is also very resource intensive.
Seam Reusability
Seam Reusability affects how likely the algorithm is to reuse previously found 'seams' of pixels in the image. 'High' setting will often result in visible stretch marks across the image. 'Medium' and 'Low' options try to mitigate that effect in their own different ways.
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