"Extending" the edges of an image to allow for a canvas wrapround

I have an image that I want to put to canvas, but the edge of the subject of the image is a bit too close to the edge of the current print.

I therfore want to "extend" the edges of the image to create additional image area to allow for a wrapround for the canvas and hence keep the subject well within frame as it would be for a straight print - if that makes sense. I have created a canvas size to allow for the wrapround which is 1½" each side and top and bottom. In effect, its a border that needs filling with the edges of the image.

My question is, what is the most effective way of creating a fill in of this border in Photoshop CS4 to provide a wrapround?

thanks in advance for your help

Easy, just make a new blank canvas the size you want to create. Paste the existing image into that blank canvas leaving the edge area, or at least the problematic edge blank. The you can clone existing image area into the blank for fill, or fill it with color if you like. It doesnt have to be perfect because of the wrap.

Can you post the image?

JakAHearts wrote in post #13372571
Can you post the image?

Sure can........

You could use the clone brush to extend the photo...

.....or you could buy "Perfect Resize 7". It has a neat one-click type of application for exactly that purpose. It has several ways of extending the original, by stretching, mirroring, and at your choice of opacities. Plus it's a very useful piece of software on it's own for its primary purpose.

Extend the top using Content Aware Scale and a little cloning.

Genuine Fractals (now called "Perfect Resize") will do this automatically - however, all it does is reflect or stretch the edges of the image - that is, is does not create new content, it just reuses what is already there, which is fine because who is going to look around the edges of the wrap?

For each edge:

1) select a few inches of the edge and copy it.
2) paste it as a new layer and then Edit > Transform > Flip ... either horizontal or vertical, depending upon which edge you are treating.
3) Once all four edges have been done, extend your canvas to the required size.
4) move each piece into place.

See attached. Genuine fractals also has provisions to blur the edge between the original image and the flipped extension, but it just looks sloppy.

kirk

ps - it looks like you made some sort of funky edit along the left edge of the image, like you copied and pasted part of the original to "clone in" more image on the left - you left a hard edge that is even more apparent when you do what I just outlined above.

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