Filling in the Blanks

[Glen Roberts]

I had to do a lot of work on this one. After I rotated and cropped to the composition I wanted there was a Blank area to the bottom left and top right. So I used the cloning tool to extend the tail a bit and fill in the blank areas. The bottom left doesn't look too bad, but the top right you can see some work has been done.

What is the best way of filling in blank areas like this???
Please keep it as simple as possible because I'm not that good at this sort of thing.

 

[Vic Shaw]

depends what software you use, in CS5 just select the area, then select fill, this will pop up a window and from there select content fill this will do the work for you.

I would use the clone tool taking it from slightly different areas at a time , then using the Healing brush tool go around the areas to blend it in. I have found the healing brush tool to be a little harsh at times, it will some times leave artefacts if used to much in the same area.


Vic

 

[Paul Lange]

On something like this my preference is to copy an area of the background that is a little larger than the size you want using a large feather say 20. Then paste the area over the corner and use the erase tool with a relatively large brush with a very soft edge set to about 25% opacity to blend in the edges of the pasted area. Areas like the tail that would end up under the pasted area so a little more detailed eraser work would be needed there. I find that his normally stops you getting the tell tale repeating pattern that can happen with the clone tool and other methods which only tend to be good for smaller areas.

 

[Glen Roberts]

Thanks Guys I'll try and give them a go sometime.