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I don't know anything about Illustrator, so possibly you can do all this from there instead of Photoshop.


1. Using the elliptical vector shape tool, make a selection of the oval cowboy image, including its leather-tooled oval frame. Copy that to a new layer and save for later. (Temporarily turn off the layer visibility so that it's not in the way.)

2. The basic idea is to crop-out the area enclosed by the red outline in the image below (make a rectangular selection and press 'Delete'). I grabbed as much area as I could to crop out, but I was careful to preserve the decorative elements in the upper corners, as well as the fancy leather tooling that starts just below the red outline.

3. Once you've cropped-out that middle section, make a selection of the upper portion of the image (the part that still remains above the red outline) and move it down until it joins up with the lower portion. By pure luck, it turns out that the image is now nearly square---appropriate for a CD cover.

4. Now grab the oval layer that you saved in Step 1 and move that into position for the best fit. You can choose to scale it a bit smaller, but I left it at its original size.

5. There were a few gaps, i.e., areas that I cropped-out that were not fully covered up by the oval cowboy image, but they consisted entirely of the plain verticle ribbing, which is fairly easy to replicate using the Clone Stamp.

6. When you're all done, you can re-scale the image to the specific dimensions you need.


As you correctly point out, my method does lose a bit of tooling in the lower portion of the image because it's now covered up by the oval frame.


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