JDF1960 Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Please tell me if I'm hallucinating or not, but it seems to me that I remember seeing something in a tutorial video about a nifty feature in AP where you could choose to automatically fill in the "gaps" on the edges of a photo that was rotated to straighten the horizon line, or choose to have the photo automatically cropped to get rid of those "gaps" - but I cannot for the life of me figure out where this setting is (or if it even exists). Can someone help please? Thank you in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted February 17, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 17, 2016 Hi JDF1960, Welcome to the forum. The straighten tool does not have an automatic inpaint option and the best way to fill in the gaps is to use the Clone or Healing brushes. This link is to the video tutorial showing how these brushes work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDF1960 Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share Posted February 17, 2016 Wow! So I guess I was hallucinating! I am familiar with the healing and cloning tools and have used them in PS for such things, but I could swear that I viewed a tutorial recently where that function could be set automatically as a part of the straightening procedure. Maybe I'm just wishing for a new feature? ;) Thanks for the prompt answer. I'm a long time PS user who just purchased AP with the intention of saying"Bye Bye" to Adobe. I've just begun using AP and will probably be visiting the forum often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted February 17, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 17, 2016 You could have been watching a Panorama tutorial as this does have the automatic inpaint option when the selected area in created. manu schwendener 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu schwendener Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 > Panorama tutorial Indeed! Quote manuschwendener.ch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killwilly Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I agree it would be great to have that facility, but I simply move the top, bottom and side lines as necessary, but it can mean you lose a part of the image if there is something important close to the edges... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJeroen Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 One of they (many) ways to fix this is as follows: First straiten your picture and the checkered triangles in the corners will show, showing transparency, meaning no basis to paint on. Like in real life, when you rotate a painting, there is nothing to paint on, since the material moved, here is how to fix it. Duplicate the background layer and add a new pixel layer, set all layer visibility to invisible, apart from the new pixel layer (which should be in-between of the original and duplicate background layer. Use the flood fill tool to paint the pixel layer white. Select the duplicate background set visibility of the duplicate background layer to on. (the checkered area's are now shown in white) By now you should have 3 layers in total (in this order, bottom to top), background (invisible), the white pixel layer (visible) and the duplicate background layer (visible). Select the 2 visible layers and right click to open the menu, select merge visible. This creates a new layer with the original dimensions of your picture where the checkered area's are now filled with white. We created something to paint on! Here comes the reward: select the inpainting toolbrush and fill the 4 triangles in the corners :-) You may have to experiment with the inpaining brush options for the best result, depending on the context area, if the brush size is to big you get unwanted artefacts. Madame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madame Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Thank you, Djeroen! That works perfectly! :) Quote - Affinity Photo 2.3.0 - Affinity Designer 2.3.0 -Affinity Publisher 2.3.0 MacBook Pro 16 GB MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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