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Repairing an image basics

Repairing an image basics

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Repairing an image basics

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- [Voiceover] In the last movie, we straightened this image but in the process, we left these gaps around the corners of the image. Now, you could of course crop these areas out but if you need fill them in to maintain the current crop, then here's how to do it. Now let's start with these bottom sections. We'll need to make a selection for these wedge shapes and the polygonal lasso tool works great for this. The polygonal lasso is located here underneath the main lasso tool. You use it by clicking to set your initial point, then drag to click your second point. And you want to make a generous selection here to completely select the wedge shape into the existing area of the image. We'll drag up here, click to set another point, and then drag down near the starting point, until your cursor gets a close selection circle next to it. Then, click to close that selection. Now, we'll fill this in. By going up to the edit menu and selecting the fill command or pressing Shift + F5 on your…

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