Fill gaps in your photo realistically

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Sometimes you need to straighten an image to stop the sea from running out... Then gaps appear in your image after straightening the horizon. With Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop, you can achieve great results when filling these gaps.

Start by making a selection of the area that needs to be filled (such as the white spaces that appeared when I straightened this photo. White areas also appear when creating a panorama. I clicked on them with the Quick Selection (W) tool to select them easily), then go to the Edit menu and choose Fill.

When the Fill dialogue box appears, choose Content-Aware from the pop-up menu if it is not already selected. When you click OK, rather than simply filling it with white or black. It usually produces a fairly good result (as in the inset above).

However, when this is not the case, it looks completely wrong and terrible. You then only have to undo it (Command-Z or PC: Ctrl-Z) and find another way to fill these areas manually, usually using the Clone Stamp tool.

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