From the course: Editing Macro Flower Photographs

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Conveying the power of the flower: Starting in Photoshop

Conveying the power of the flower: Starting in Photoshop

From the course: Editing Macro Flower Photographs

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Conveying the power of the flower: Starting in Photoshop

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- [Instructor] All right, so let's take a look at how to edit this image to convey flower power. So what I want to do is make kind of a fantastical image where it's nighttime and that this flower is effervescent and it is spreading some magical dust at night. So appropriately named, this is a Baja fairy duster and I'm going to start the edits by cropping this image a little differently, 'cause I want to show some of its fairy dust or particles coming off at this angle and we're going to run out of space. So one of the neat things about Crop Tool is you can actually crop beyond your image. I'm just going to make some more head room for this flower. And I'm going to try to use the Content Aware Fill and see if it will do the trick for this. I'm going to add to the selection here holding down the Shift key, and I'll try Edit, Fill, Content Aware Fill. See how it does. Does a pretty good job, I'll take it. And I'm going to deselect, I'm going to use the Spot Healing Brush, I'm going to…

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