How do I extend edge pixels?

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Hi all,

I have the following photo which I took recently:



I'd like to get it printed and mounted but I'm aware I framed the scene in camera very tight at the top. I'm afraid when I get it mounted that the tops of the buildings will be clipped. As a result I think I need to extend or replicate the top edge outwards.


I'm very familiar with Lightroom but am new to Photoshop and I'm not sure exactly how to do this in Photoshop. I'll played around with a few options .... i.e. I've extended the canvas and then did a thin rectangular selection of the top few lines of the image followed by a content aware move off that thin slice. I repeated the content aware move several times. The end result is ok, but I do get blurry patches which are quite noticeable to the human eye. Is there a better way to do this?

The alternative or maybe some thing I might want to consider anyway is just to extend the canvas and use a white background - essentially to give the effect of a white border - what do you think?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks!
 
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If you're going to get it mounted, you're going to get it printed so there's no need to add pixels around the edge. Just print it on paper that's larger than the image. Find out the size of the frame (call it s), find out the dimensions of the interior of the frame (call it i), where the picture will fit, print the photo at size i on paper of size s.
 
^this.

Just print it with space around it... a white border in other words, and just cut the mount aperture exactly the same size as the image so that the mount doesn't crop into the image at all.
 
If your printing on canvas you'll really need to gallery wrap the edge (sort of mirror effect) I use a script, but there are actions around.
 
Try extending the top of the canvas using a background colour sampled from the sky.

Duplicate layer

Then a soft clone stamp to soften the line.

Flatten image, then duplicate layer.

Now a soft healing brush to blur the uneven parts, working from the top down. Keep going over it - like using a paint brush - to reduce uneven areas. Layer mask and hard brush to paint back any parts of the buildings that get cloned out.

It'll probably take a few goes to get an acceptable result, and it's unlikely to be perfect, but should be good enough with patience.

If you check your 'allow edit' bit, I'll show you what I mean if this isn't clear (and I'm sure others will have alternative suggestions)
 
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