Photoshop Mama's Fill Frame with Seamless

Hi! This is Mama Shan with a quick tutorial to show you how to fill your canvas with the missing parts of the seamless if you want to fill it to the full frame of the original shot.

First thing you need to do, is select the Rectangular Marquee Tool from the tool box and make sure that there is no feather on it. And it is just normal style up here. And what we are going to do is start on the right hand side to fill in this. So I am just going to take an inch or half an inch of that side right there, and release.

And then I am going to get the transformation tool. So I will just go under Edit, free transform and it puts that bounding box. Now before I do any stretching, what I am going to do is back this up one pixel in the opposite direction from where I am going to be pulling it. Now I am going to be pulling it towards the right so I want to back up towards the left one pixel.

So with the bounding box visible, just look at your keyboard and tap the left arrow key in this instance just one time. And then, take this handle here, let me stretch out this document. And you want to stretch it to the right until the seamless goes all the way to the right. And then you can just hit your Enter key to commit it or the check mark up here or double click inside of the bounding box. And then you want to deselect so just move your cursor outside of the selection, click once. That is a quick way to deselect.

Now we are going to do the top portion so I am just going to drag down here like this and you want to get a portion of the seamless that does not have the role on it or this dark shadow here so I have come down just a little bit more on that. And again, I am going to go to edit free transform or you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl T on a PC, or command T on a Macintosh. And again, you want to use that one pixel trick, going in the opposite direction before we drag. So in this instance, since I am going to be dragging upward, I want to hit the down arrow on the keyboard to back that up one pixel in the opposite direction. Then just click on this middle handle here and stretch it until it is seamless and commit it. And then move outside of the selection and just click once to deselect. And we will come down here on this side like this. And I am making a selection so that I have some of this area beyond or this edge is here and again, Ctrl T on a PC, command T on a Macintosh. And I will use the right arrow key to back up before I stretch one pixel. And then just drag until that area is covered, and then deselect.

And that is it. Now, you can use other methods to clean up the spots or dust on this image.


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