Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step Nine:
Go ahead and click the Open Image
button to open the corrected photo
(complete with the dark gray gaps) in
Photoshop. You'll notice that to fix the
leaning problems, it had to kind of
squash the image a bit, so now the build-
ing looks a little squatty. To fix the squat-
tiness (not a word, I know) and cover that
dark gray gap at the bottom, get the
Rectangular Marquee tool
(M)
, and click-
and-drag it around the image, going
across the bottom edge, right above the
dark gray gap. Now, press
Command-T
(PC: Ctrl-T)
to bring up Free Transform.
Grab the bottom-center transform han-
dle and drag the image straight down—
stretching it to fill the dark gray gap at
the bottom (as shown here). Press
Return
(PC: Enter)
to lock in your change, then
press
Command-D (PC: Ctrl-D)
to de-
select. The bonus here is that the build-
ing doesn't look squatty anymore. Two
birds. One stone.
Step 10:
Now, when it comes to those two
gray triangles in the corners, you have
two choices here: (1) The most common
choice is simply to crop away those gray
empty areas, so get the Crop tool
(C)
,
drag it out over as much of the photo as
you can without extending into the gaps,
and then press Return. (2) However, we
could pull a fast one, and instead try a
little Content-Aware Fill (it's definitely
worth a try, because fairly often it works
like magic). Get the Magic Wand tool
(press
Shift-W
until you have it), and click
it once in a gray area to select it, then
Shift-click in the other one. Go under the
Select menu, under Modify and choose
Expand
, and enter 4 pixels (Content-
Aware Fill seems to work better if you
expand out your selection by 4 pixels.
I learned that from Adobe themselves).
