Teresa,
While I’ve not asked your permission yet, I’m posting a link to my edited version of your dress image, so as to solicit other opinions. If you want me to remove the image for any reason, please let me know. Not knowing if the woman in the dress is a model, friend, etc., I’ve cropped her head out of the photo to avoid model release problems.
All,
The photo found at <
http://jazzdiver.com/photoshop/extended_skirt.jpg> is a low resolution version of Teresa’s file, showing the image before and after my attempts to lengthen the skirt. The unposted hi-res image reveals the rather poor quality results of my efforts which are seen here primarily as seams between the layers which provided the skirt extensions. Because of the pattern in the dress and the slight curves caused by how the material drapes, use of the clone tool seemed to NOT be the best approach to take. Instead, I copied and shifted selected areas of the dress, attempting to align them so as get the best appearance of the layer seams that I could. I couldn’t really determine a good way to blend out the seams, and that is the crux of my question here:
For such patterns as this does anyone know what the most effective approach would be to lengthen the dress while minimizing apparent seams between the layers? The only other thought I’ve had is that rather than use rectangular selections as I did, an irregular selection across the width of the skirt might’ve been better. That is, using the polygon lasso or pen tool, one could create a selection boundary that traces "between the lines" of the pattern while following any curvature caused by the drape of the dress, and that spans no more than one or two rows of the pattern. Much more than that, and I suspect it would remain pretty difficult to copy, shift, and align the selection. Because this would be a much narrower strip across the dress than the large retangular sections that I used, quite a number of layers would be needed to build up a very long extension. I’m not sure how well this would work, but it’s the only other idea that comes to mind.
Any insights into how to tackle such a task are appreciated.
Daryl