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Step Three: This will serve as the

backside of the interior of our hollow

lighthouse, but we need the curves of

the building materials to arc the cor-

rect way. Flip the layer vertically with

Edit>Transform>Flip Vertical. Then,

use Edit >Transform>Perspective to

distort the shape so it matches the

same perspective of the original.

Right-click inside the bounding box,

and select Scale. Drag the bottom-

center point downward so the shape

covers most of the bottom of the

lighthouse, despite the exaggerated

curve. Press Enter, and then in the

Layers panel, drag this layer below the

Lighthouse Body Front layer, and hide

both Lighthouse Body layers from

view by clicking their Eye icons.

Step Four: Make a copy of the Background layer and call it “Sky Fill.” Create a

selection from the Lighthouse Body path in the Paths panel as we did before. Go

to Edit>Content-Aware-Fill to open the Content-Aware Fill workspace. Photoshop

will sample from any areas in the image that have a color overlay (green by default).

If Photoshop is sampling from other portions of the lighthouse to fill the selection,

use the Sampling Brush tool (B) set to Subtract from Overlay Area in the Options Bar

(the minus brush) to remove those pixels from consideration. If there are portions of

the sky that aren’t included in the sampling area, switch the brush to Add to Overlay