How to expand the background using content aware crop

Hi everyone. This video, we are going to magic up some more background  around the edges because we need more space, especially  as designers, creatives to put things, okay, like text  and logos and buy one, get one free offers. Uh, often images can be cropped in beautifully  by the photographer, okay? But often we need some extra bits. So we're gonna do some magic ready city magic up  to a bit more background. Pretty believable, pretty nice.

I'm gonna show you how far you can go  before it goes very badly. I'd say there's not even there that badly,  but, uh, we're gonna stick to like just little bits. You can get like an extra 20 to 50%, but not one zillion. All right? Let's work out how to do that now in Photoshop. All right, to get started, let's zoom out a little bit.

Uh, command minus on a mac or control minus on a pc. Uh, let's have a look at the crop tool. So I'm gonna grab the crop tool  and the magic's gonna happen is I want  to turn content aware on  and I want to turn delete crock pixels off. So this is the main one that I want on. And you're like, it's gray out, it's not working. I already started this video a second ago  and I'm like, huh, I've worked it out.

In the interim is you need to select on a layer. You need to say, this is the layer  that I'm gonna be magic in more background on. Alright, so I've got it selected. I know it's 'cause it's kind of a lighter gray  and now I can do this one. Okay? And nothing really happens.

You just need to decide how big you want it. Now this is where you've gotta be, um, uh, patient. No, uh, I can't, I can't even think of the word. Uh, not too greedy. 'cause if you, if I try  and magic up this, we'll do it in a second, eh,  but the one I want is I just want a bit more, right? Because we all run into those problems, right?

When we're trying to like, uh,  we've got a nice cropped image from a photographer  and you're like, no, I need lots of background  to put like ads and logos and text and stuff. So this is what we can do. So drag it out from the edges roughly like I've got hit. Make sure that's on and either hit return on your keyboard  or enter or hit this little ticky box. All right? Ready?

City. Yours will be faster than mine and cool. Huh? If you are still copying and pasting  and clone tool stamping,  you will do probably a little happy jump flip thing. I'm happy every time I see it and I teach it all the time. All right, I'm gonna turn it off just  'cause next time I'm gonna use it,  I probably just want to crop it.

Uh, what does it look like if I go full noise? I'll skip ahead. All right, here we go. And it is not bad. It is not bad at all, but that's not what we want. I'm gonna go back to my original one.

All right, there we go. More manageable. That's gonna work for us 'cause there's lots of area  for extra stuff and things and we're removed our stick. Alright, let's jump into the next video.