How to Use the Content Aware Extend Tool in Photoshop CS6

Photoshop CS6 has many content-aware tools that have proved to be very useful. One of them is Content-aware extend tool that allows us to extend any object or background.

1.  Lets say you have a nice piece of grass, but you’d need it to be a longer stripe. You cannot scale it wider, since that would distort the grass to something unnatural.

How to Use the Content Aware Extend Tool in Photoshop CS6

2.  One way to widen the grass is to use the new content-aware extend tool. But first things first – take the Rectangular Marquee tool and select part of the object you’d wish to extend.

How to Use the Content Aware Extend Tool in Photoshop CS6

Now select the Content-Aware Move tool and set the Mode to Extend.

3.  And now just drag with the Content-Aware tool towards where you’d wish to extend the object. Let Photoshop think a bit and your object will be extended.

How to Use the Content Aware Extend Tool in Photoshop CS6

4.  If you are working with a small object, then it may be necessary to repeat the step several times to achieve the full width.

How to Use the Content Aware Extend Tool in Photoshop CS6

5.  Eventually you will have a natural looking extended object without any extra effort.

How to Use the Content Aware Extend Tool in Photoshop CS6

 

And that is How to Use the Content Aware Extend Tool in Photoshop CS6

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