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Filling in missing areas in Photoshop

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Filling in missing areas in Photoshop

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- Now that I've got a straighter horizon, I can fill in some of the missing pixels. Photoshop offers several different tools, many of them falling in the Content-Aware category. Let's start by duplicating this layer so we have some extra information to work with. Now what I'm going to do is Command or Control + Click on the layer to load it and Select Inverse. This chooses all the missing pixels. Now let's expand that selection just a little bit by Modify Expand so it eats into the surrounding pixels. You see that the expansion just picks up a little bit of that edge. Now I could choose Edit Content-Aware Fill. This brings up an advanced Content-Aware dialog and analyzes the surrounding pixels to make new ones. It takes a moment here, but essentially, we can control where it looks and it's pretty aggressive where it's going to evaluate. And in the image on the left, I can choose to remove areas that I don't want included. So hold down the Space Bar there and paint to subtract some…

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