u/Religion_Of_Speed

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I noticed this when I tried to bring a photo in to place in one of the artboards, when I placed it in (just pasted) I was unable to scale the image and my selection only stuck to what's highlighted in this image. What's shown above is the before, when I first open the file, and after deleting anything with that shape. PS is persistent with the selection of that shape and nothing I do changes that. It's always on that artboard. Even after I delete the artboard (ref image 2) that rounded square selection stays, like it's still there hidden under everything yet that is not the case.

No matter what I do I can't get that shape to be unselected and it's causing me to be unable to do anything in this document. I was able to start a new document and set it up the way this one is (though the background is checkered rather than white for some reason despite being functionally the same) but I want to make sure I'm not missing something stupidly obvious before I start checking all of my templates.

tl;dr - Trying to fill large space with the same noise as seen in the photo below but don't have enough to do what I would typically do and clone stamp and/or copy/paste sections to overlap and fill.

Reference That's about 6" of the image, to get an idea of noise density. It's very reminiscent of like night vision goggles in very low light situations.

I'm making a 36x60" print with an image that I must use and this print will be hanging in a prominent restaurant chain all over my state so I need this to look as close to perfect as possible. Which is also why I'm not comfortable sharing the entire image, just the relevant part.

The image has some noise that I reeeeeeally like (see reference above) but it's a panoramic shot so in order to keep my subject in frame horizontally I have to sacrifice the top and bottom (about 3.75" each side). Luckily the image terminates with this noisy black on the top and bottom so all I need to do is figure out how to recreate this noise so I can extend the image. The problem is that there just isn't enough to fill in the amount of space I have left, no matter what I do you can see subtle patterns because short of hand-painting them in there are just bound to be patterns. The typical denoise, re-add noise through PS filters isn't achieving the same look and because that method exists it's impossible to search for a solution and I'm only finding ways to add the standard noise.

Do any of you have advice? So far I've tried copying/pasting/masking sections of the image into the gaps, clone stamping to varying degrees, generating noise and saving as a flattened image and scaling up, generative fill/expand, and any combination of these that you can come up with. I'd rather lose the noise than use AI here, other than my desperate attempt with generative fill/expand.