fantom Loc: Colorado

What PP program are you using?

JD750 Loc: SoCal

First thank you for that great tip! Make the image bigger so you can straighten it without loosing a critical piece of the image. Great idea! I had not thought of that. Myself, I would not crop out the border, for me in this process, you get the border as an added bonus. ;)

However with a simple border, grass in this case, I think what you did in 6 steps can more easily be accomplished using “content aware crop”.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

One of the best uses for Photoshop Generative Fill is to fill those triangles that result from straightening. Works much better than cloning or using the old content aware fill.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

I don't use Photoshop.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

Paintshop Pro by Corel

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

I use Photoshop Pro by Corel. One of the adjustments is adding borders. You can make the borders any width you would like. They don't have to be the same width on each side which is nice for making digital cards.

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Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

That's good, but I don't use PhotoShop. The Corel program I use doesn't have content-aware as of yet. They improve it each year and 2024 isn't out yet.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Didn't see an answer so I'll jump in. This is the way I would do it. I don't know how the OP did it. (Edit: it appears that Bridges and I were posting at about the same time).

I use PSCC, not CS4 but I suspect the answer will be the same.

Load the image into a layer.



Increase the canvas size. Image > Canvas Size





Note that the resulting dialog has the image dimensions listed. Edit those numbers to larger numbers.



There is a pad with a dot in the center and 8 arrows. That determines how the resulting image will be centered in the new canvas. Don't change anything and the image will be centered, i.e. the margin will be blank around all sides of the image. Assuming you started with the image in a layer, the margin will be transparent (hatched grey and white). If you started with the image as a background, the margin will be all white.

Clicking on the "OK" button will give you the image with a transparent margin.



You can place a layer below the image if you want with a solid color to make the margin something other than transparent, but you can use the transparent margin. It doesn't have to be black as the original poster displayed.

One other note: you only need to increase the size of the original in the direction that would crop something you don't want cropped when you rotate it. For example, you don't need to add a border above or below the photo because you're not losing essential objects in those directions. OTOH, you might be able to get a shed on the right side along with the cow on the left side.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Nice work

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Nicely done result 🎯

fantom Loc: Colorado

Thanks, that answers a lot of questions I may have had. I have used Photoshop to do what you described but was hoping you had found a good way to do it in LR---- the program I use the most for editing.

nison777 Loc: illinois u.s.a.

Great idea...
Makes perfect sense..
Thanks

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

You can clone fill and never use the black border. You have several unnecessary steps in this instance, IMHO.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I run into fewer problems when I crop in RAW, especially where there’s a lot of tilt. But then I’ve never run into a situation where I wanted to retain corner detail. I read some good advice that said to compose a larger scene then crop down to what you want. I hardly think ahead enough to do that but I see where it could be beneficial. I have to spend a bit of time to avoid tilt because I naturally hold the right corner of the camera down a little when I bring it up to my eye.

jlg1000 Loc: Uruguay / South America

Why? The cow can be pasted again into the composition.