Cloning help?

[fuzzbass]

My names Steve. I play in a three piece band, like photography and making silly photoshopped photos of my friends!

I have a photo that is rectangular in shape that I would like to make square to use as a record cover for our new record. Picture attached. I would have usually cloned the sky to make the picture square, but the sky has a slight texture to it, and is lit up in parts. (it is a photo of a picture made of paper with led lights poking through it). I was wondering if anybody could give me any hints or tips on how to achieve this?

Many Thanks

Steve Hansey

[Hoogle]

will content aware scale not do it

go to edit > content aware scale and drag the top transform line up to make it a square you may need to extend the canvas slightly and use this in combination with a crop

[fuzzbass]

Many thanks for your help...
Is this option available in Photoshop Elemants 9?
I can't find it, it may not be... :-(

Steve

[thedirtyknapkin]

carefully...

all i can really think to say

[thedirtyknapkin]

content aware fill is only in cs5

and it didn't work very well, it put the lights i the sky, and a red and white spike above the moon

[Dataflow]

i would copy/paste the bottom half of the sun(only the BG part) and flip it so the bottom can then be placed at the top.
then the rest can easily be cloned

[Hoogle]

content aware fill is different to content aware scale I am uploading the scale 1 now but is 16 mb in size and my internet has suffered snow damage so will take a while.

I am not sure if elements has this feature or not give me a min and my next post will be using the content aware scale version not sure why you need it in such a high resolution for a cd cover but done it like that for you anyway

[fuzzbass]

Wow! That's perfect Dirty Napkin! How did you do it? I tried cloning with a speckled brush, cloning over a new almost matching blue laver, mirroring the whole picture... How did you do it? Thanks Hoogle too! I'm really tring to improve my Photoshop this year, got a new dslr camera in October and now working on new record covers for my band's music!

Wow, and thanks again to both of you!

Steve

[fuzzbass]

The resolution came from the original photo, i thought i'd leave it as it was, then reduce it for smaller jpgs for use on web etc later...

[Hoogle]

This is what content aware scale does I was already uploading it before the clone option from napkin came up so may as well finish the post