The Recompose Tool

Another re-composition helper is the Recompose tool. Personally, I think its results can be very hit and miss, almost as if Adobe has bitten off more than it can chew. Give it a go and see what you think...

We all have snaps in our libraries where we might wish the composition to be slightly different—people a bit closer to each other, landscapes a bit wider, or formats recomposed to a square shape, for example. The Recompose tool sets out to provide the solutions to these problems.

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I like the openness in this scene, but want to stretch it further to give the image more of a panoramic look. To achieve this, I need to add more to the right-hand side of the canvas using the Canvas Size feature (inset panel). I wasn't 100% sure how much extra real estate I was going to need, so I added a lot—if it adds too much, it's easy enough to crop any surplus off later. The new real estate appears as a checkerboard...