From the course: Photo Tools Weekly

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Extending and filling in the background projects

Extending and filling in the background projects

From the course: Photo Tools Weekly

Extending and filling in the background projects

- [Voiceover] Hey guys, welcome back. In order to explore more about how we can extend the content in our image, we're going to be working with two photographs here, starting off with this one, titled Sunshine. Sometimes we'll need to do this because of a mistake, or maybe because of the way we processed the image. With this image, what I want to do is change it a little bit. Let me show you how. Here, I'll drag this down to the New Layer icon, and I'm gonna go ahead and just name this new one Shape, because I'm really focusing in on the shape of the subject, here. Next I'll access the Free Transform tool, by going to Edit, and Free Transform. Now there's a neat thing you can do with Free Transform. When it's active, you can hold down the Command key on a Mac, or Control key on Windows, and you can click on any of your points. Notice how if I drag these out, the subject appears shorter and wider. If we do the opposite, if we drag them in, it's going to appear little bit taller, and…

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