helcyon
Joined: 02 Oct 2005
Posts: 191
PS Version: CS3
OS: OSX 10
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 Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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The first thing you need to do is to increase your canvas size. If you think you might need to go larger than 1024px, then go ahead and make it larger. You can crop it down to the smaller size if need be.
So adjust the canvas size to lets say 1500px wide.
Textured things such as grass are really easy to duplicate and expand.
There is a lot of grass texture in the upper left side of the image. Use the lasso tool and select a good portion of the grass. (avoiding the sheep). Make sure the layer with sheep and grass is selected, then hit cmd + J or PC (Ctrl + J). This will duplicate the selected area in a new layer.
Turn off the original layer so you just see the new grass layer. Add a layer mask to this layer. use a normal round brush at 0 hardness and mask away the edges. (when you are doing this with the mask selected, you should be painting black to essentially erase the hard edges of your selection.
Turn the original layer back on, then move the grass layer behind the original layer. Move the new grass layer over to the left of the image. Then while holding the alt key, click and drag the layer to a new spot. Do this repeatedly until all of the empty area is now filled with the grass texture.
Once you get a nice grass background, you will see that the original image still has the hard edged on the sides. Add a layer mask to this layer, and once again, get a round brush at 0 hardness and 100%, paint the sides of the mask black to it blends into the grass background you made.
If this does not look good enough, make a new layer on top of everything, use the clone stamp tool. Make sure the check box for "apply to all layers" is selected. Use the clone stamp tool, also at 0 hardness, maybe 50% opacity, to clean up any transition areas there might be. You can also adjust the masks of any of the layers to get a better result by painting black or white.
If you get a result you like, you can either save it how it is for a fully editable file, or you can merge layers, and or flatten the image. let me know if you have any other questions.
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