As requested by Jeff, this is how I extended the canvas on his recent red kite shot. It is similar to the tip i posted a few months back but with the wing feathers right on the top edge, a few additional steps are needed.
Open original image in PS or Elements and duplicate the background
Increase the canvas size with ctrl, alt and C and in the box which appears ensure that the box of arrows at the bottom are pointing upwards and enter an additional 200 pixels for the height and click OK - the colour of the extension is not important
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Grab the rectangular marquee tool and make selections either side of wings
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Ctrl plus T and grab the top middle handle and pull up to stretch the sky
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Double click within the area and then deselect.
Select the magic wand tool and clikck on the sky until it is all selected and then on the black area until everything is selected apart from the kite - select the clone tool (soft brush and around 100px} and you can now clone within the selected area without affecting the bird
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Now deselect and reduce the brush size to about 10px and hardness 75% to just tidy up the feather which was touching the original edge of the image
Finally crop, flatten and save the image
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Stan
Open original image in PS or Elements and duplicate the background
Increase the canvas size with ctrl, alt and C and in the box which appears ensure that the box of arrows at the bottom are pointing upwards and enter an additional 200 pixels for the height and click OK - the colour of the extension is not important
01.jpg
02.jpg
Grab the rectangular marquee tool and make selections either side of wings
03.jpg
Ctrl plus T and grab the top middle handle and pull up to stretch the sky
04.jpg
Double click within the area and then deselect.
Select the magic wand tool and clikck on the sky until it is all selected and then on the black area until everything is selected apart from the kite - select the clone tool (soft brush and around 100px} and you can now clone within the selected area without affecting the bird
06.jpg
Now deselect and reduce the brush size to about 10px and hardness 75% to just tidy up the feather which was touching the original edge of the image
Finally crop, flatten and save the image
07.jpg
Stan
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