enlarge to 8x10 aspect ratio

Hi,

When I take shots I tend to "fill the frame" which is good thing for most cases but not for team photos in the 8x10 cropping. I was wondering if there is something in CS5 (like content-aware fill) which I can truly enlarge the photo by add pixels to the top and bottom of the photo get the 8x10 aspect ratio. Here's a photos with the original cropping out of the camera and an 8x10 crop (done in LR3). Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

dang - didn't pull back enough!

Don't crop. Instead, enlarge the canvas height and use contant aware fill to add sky / grass (or stretch it a bit). Easy.

René Damkot wrote in post #12050775
Don't crop. Instead, enlarge the canvas height and use contant aware fill to add sky / grass (or stretch it a bit). Easy.

Thanks! Just what I was looking for. Filling the grass was what I expected, more grass. Filling the sky was a bit weird - the content aware fill does not seem to like filling blank sky with more blank sky - it tended to add some stuff lower in the picture.

There is also content aware scaling which will give you the same end result. For the samples that you posted I would use content aware scaling before I would use content aware fill as the latter can sometimes give flaky results. CA-scaling was available as of CS4 and CA-fill came in CS5. The other nice thing I like about the scaling option is that you can protect certain areas of your image from being distorted by building yourself a mask for the areas you want to protect.

There is no shortage of online tutorials for either of these but here is one for Content Aware Scaling based on CS4 from Lynda.com.

ssim wrote in post #12053147
There is also content aware scaling which will give you the same end result. For the samples that you posted I would use content aware scaling before I would use content aware fill as the latter can sometimes give flaky results. CA-scaling was available as of CS4 and CA-fill came in CS5. The other nice thing I like about the scaling option is that you can protect certain areas of your image from being distorted by building yourself a mask for the areas you want to protect.

There is no shortage of online tutorials for either of these but here is one for Content Aware Scaling based on CS4 from Lynda.com.

Wow! good stuff. This works even better. Thanks!