what's up youtube welcome to Ghananie photography my name is don alabee today i'll take you through
a quick tutorial on how to extend your backdrop in photoshop this is going to be one of the
shortest tutorials i've ever recorded trust me we are going to take this image and then
move it to this so let me put them side by side so you see left is what we are trying to work on and
then right is what we want to achieve so without wasting much time let's just export this to
photoshop i have a tutorial on this topic how to move from capture one to photoshop
and back to capture one so i'll include a link in the description so you can check
it out once you're done watching this video so everything here is set let me just edit
here we are in photoshop now why would you want to watch this if you want to learn how to expand or
stretch your backdrop sometimes you find yourself shooting in smaller spaces or you're limited
in the size of backdrop to use you can still go ahead and shoot and then
expand it in photoshop i'm using photoshop 2021. so some of the menus might not be at where they
are but then the steps are the same so just find where it is on whatever version you're using and
you can move along so what we are going to use here is the rectangular marquee tool this
particular one so we select a clean area that we would want to stretch over the area that's not
desirable so over here we'll select from here don't forget don't add any other element to your
selection and this selection has not been well done so let me deselect and reselect so from top
to bottom because i want to stretch everything here so whatever it's within this rectangle
is what will be stretched along so once we've done the selection let's go to edit and then
free transform so you see the edges change so we grab this side and then pull it here
now there is uh something here you see this chain over here if you if it's selected it means it
should follow this aspect ratio so as you stretch it it increases the height also now let me just
enable this and then do it so you see you see what happens the top here changes now it increases
as you increase the size that's not what we want so you make sure you disable this block here
which means you you don't want it to you don't want the aspect ratio to be locked
so with that we just stretch so this is before and then this is where we are now so we do the same
thing over here we select the rectangular marquee tool pick the area we want and then we go to edit
free transform grab this and then stretch it over that's it now we are okay with that command d
to deselect we want to clean this side and then stretch it over so the same thing
select don't worry if you selected maybe part of your subject just leave enough space
and then you can use the up arrow key to move your marquee up and then we do the same thing edit
free transform then we grab it up like that and voila now there is a bonus let's say
we want to increase this i want to make it maybe a landscape so we want to increase the size of
this it's very very easy what to do is you go to image then you see somewhere the converse size
and now we want to increase the width if you want to increase the height also
you can do that so let's come this way and then choose percentage now it's
100 i want to increase it by let's say 40 so i make it 140 i want it left and right so click ok
so you see it adds black to the sides which is where we've increased so if you want to
expand it make this yellow go over this side very easy the same procedure we choose the
market to select our area that we want to expand go to edit then we choose free transform and then
we stretch it see right like that select this place we do the same thing edit free transform
then stretch it so now it looks like we shot this in a big studio
see the shadows everything follows so you can go ahead and then do your
cleaning of the floor and all that i have a tutorial on how to clean your seamless
backdrops i'll add the link in the description so you can check it out after watching this video so
once we are done with that we save it now let's go back to capture one and see what we have there
so you see this is what we've done so far so we move from left to right now this of course
i showed you how to increase the size but then if we take this off and do this with this one
we maintain the aspect which yes i said this was going to be the shortest tutorial i've ever made
i don't know if i'm still within range this is how to extend your backdrop in photoshop
very very easily i hope this has been informative for you and i'd like to thank you for watching
you