filling extended areas with colours from model

[Jakey80]

Hi, I need this picture in a square format for website, have extended borders at top and bottom, as shown. How do I now use the colours in the model, i.e. the grey backdrop to fill those areas and blend? 

is there a way of copying a selected area and just pasting it into the white areas above and below perhaps? 

Cheers. 

[Dan C]

Hi Jakey80

You could use the clone tool to duplicate sections of the image into the transparent area find out more about this here - 

Alternatively you could select the surrounding colour using the colour picker tool and then paint using a brush in the transparent area! 

The easiest option in my opinion however would be to try inpainting the area, using the following instructions:

Select>Alpha Range>Select Fully Transparent, Select>Grow/Shrink (grow by 2px), then Edit>Inpaint. I've attached a quick screen recording of this in action!

[gdenby]

Hi, Jakey80,

Another way. Make a rectangular marquee enclosing the space under the legs. Copy that, and paste. Stretch the paster pixel rectangle from the visible bottom to the empty bottom. Merge down. Repeat for the upper section.

[Jakey80]

thanks gdenby, doesn't seem to work exactly for me....taken thin strip of grey available below with rectangular marquee tool, then copy and paste, can only seem to paste a box that you can fill from set colour swatches (see top area) rather than just an exact copy of the backdrop? 

[Jakey80]

Dan C, thanks, great illustrative video. Followed and almost worked....any tips to not get that bottom area error?

[Dan C]

I'd simply use the clone tool after this process to remove any unwanted areas

[carl123]

Stretching the pasted pixels is the way to go but you will get "noise" when you stretch.  So you need to Denoise (Luminance) the stretched layer.

Bottom part comes out OK but matching the pattern (noise) on the top half is harder. 

All depends how much time you want to spend on it.

 

 

[gdenby]

Hi again, Jakey80,

Sorry for the slow follow-up. Wasted a bunch of time trying to make a quick animation, but that is something with which I have minimal skill. So, attached, a few screen caps.

Select a portion. Copy and Paste. Stretch the copy. I used gaussian blur to reduce the noise. (I suspect at web resolution, the noise will not be noticed) Merge the visible layers.