The Photoshop Productivity Series: Automating Photoshop

Content-Aware Move Tool: Extend Mode

The Content-Aware Move tool also has a mode called Extend that works really well when you need to add more pixels and have them naturally blend in. In this illustration I have a photo of textured wallpaper that I need to extend to make it a little wider.

Figure 2.52 The Extend mode for the Content-Aware Move tool can help make this image wider.

In this case, neither Free Transform not Content-Aware Scale would work as they would stretch the pixels. Previously I would have made a selection, copied it onto a layer and attempted to line up the pattern so it (hopefully) didn’t look obvious. Now I make a selection ...