In this tutorial I shall explain how to use the new selection and content-aware tools in adobe photoshop cs 5. The result will be a nice wallpaper you can use for your desktop.

Let’s start by picking a good background image of a landscape. I downloaded this picture from sxh.hu a free photostock website. You can also make a nice panoramic picture yourself. I picked this picture: Vosges Lake.

Copy the picture into your photoshop cs5 program. Make a printscreen (prt sc button on keyboard) and paste it into photoshop. Now you have the exact dimensions of your desktop and you can paste the picture into it. Transform the picture proportionally and save your document.

I want to remove the small house at the end of the image so I take the quick selection tool (w) and select the house. I did it in a couple of times to select the full house, don’t worry if you select more than the house alone. Also expand the selection a bit (select -> modify -> expand -> 2px).

Now we fill the background with the new cs5 feature content aware. (right mouse click -> fill -> content-aware / opacity 100%). As you can see the small house in the back is now gone. Repeat those steps to delete the vehicle on the left.

To be continued