Have you ever needed just a little extra space either at the top, bottom, or sides to help balance an image...well, there are times when I could use just a smidge so here's an easy way to do that.
I fell in love with the shape of the door handles and how the dark and light played off of each other, however, there wasn't quite enough room on the right hand edge. Increasing the canvas size is a way to help balance the image a little better.
The first step is to increase the canvas size...select Image, Canvas Size. For this image, I only added space on the right-hand side...make sure to anchor your selection and to check "relative".
You then select the rectangular marque tool, selecting some of the image on the right edge as close to the handle as you can and some in the newly created white canvas space...with the area selected, go to Edit, Content Aware Scale...grab the center handle and drag...accept by clicking on the check mark, or hit Enter; then deselect.
If you added a little too much canvas, no problem...you can easily remove this by going to Image, Trim.
Enjoy Today...Be Inspired.
