: Trying to make a picture's background fit with a background that the picture is on I have a picture on top of a background that is wider than it and the background colors don't match. I

@Lee3735518

Result:



Notice how the sharp division between the background and the floor has remained without a repetitive look.

Steps:

Make a rectangle selection between the downbell and the beginning of the area you want to delete.



Go to Edit > Content-Aware Scale.



Resize the selection.

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@Smith574

In Photoshop:

Setup your document and place your image:



Click the Rectangle Marquee Tool and select the background from the image:



Go to Edit -> Copy Merged then go to File -> New and click ok then go to Edit -> Paste:



Take the file and save it out as foobar.psd. Go to Edit -> Define pattern:



Create a new layer and place it below the layer with your image:



Click the Paint Bucket Tool with it defined as pattern and locate the pattern you created:



Convert the image layer to a rasterized layer. After applying the pattern go to the Clone Stamp Tool and play around with the layers and background and take your time on this:



Ideally I would add the text with HTML and CSS but thats me. This is a quick way to do it especially if you are trying to knock out a lot of main image galleries for a store website. There are other ways but based on your situation I would do it this way since you can massage the background color better.

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