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In some cases, you may want to fill in an area because it is damaged or simply
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missing as is the case here. We have a bit of a frame to our photo.
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And I'd like to fill in this top portion so that I can crop the image to a more
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normal shape, essentially just a rectangle without this arc.
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So, I'm going to start off by creating a selection.
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I'll use the Polygonal Lasso tool and I'll simply create a selection comprised
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of straight lines. That includes the top portion of the photo.
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So, I'll go around this arc, and then around the top portion of the photo.
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And I'll close off that Selection so that I have the top portion here included in
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that selection. I'll then create a copy of the background
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image layer, by simply dragging the thumbnail for my background image layer,
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to the Create New Layer button. The blank sheet of paper icon at the
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bottom of the Layers panel. And that's because I'm going to use the
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Content Aware technology in conjunction with the Fill command to fill in this
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selected area and this option does not work on an empty layer.
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I need to work on an actual layer, but of course I don't want to harm my underlying
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background image layer. So, with the selection created and with
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my background copy layer active, I'll go to the Edit menu and then choose Fill.
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I'll make sure that the Use option is set to Content Aware and then I'll simply
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click Ok. Photoshop will process that area and, as
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you can see, it's done overall a very good job of filling in that upper portion
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of the image. I'll turn off the background copy layer,
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and turn it back on, and you can see that we have a nice expansion of the area of
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the photo that was missing. I do have an area that's a little bit too dark.
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I think I'll use the Spot Healing Brush tool in order to blend that in just a
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little bit better. I'll simply paint over that portion of
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the photo. And have Photoshop blend away that area
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into that background. As always, it's a good idea to rename
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your layers. So, the background copy layer, is not
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exactly the most descriptive term for what I've accomplished here.
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We'll go ahead and call this Fill In Top, since I'm using this layer to fill in
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that top portion of the photo. So, as you can see, by creating a
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selection of the area that I need to clean up and then working on a copy of
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the background image layer I can use the Fill command in conjunction with the
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Content Aware technology in order to apply an automatic adjustment.
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And as always I can perform a little bit of extra clean up work to blend in the
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results using that Spot Healing Brush tool.
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