As I worked on a theater group's postcard recently, I had the job of making the information-heavy side of the postcard work with the image below. I tried cropping it several different ways, and found it difficult to work around the picture and the light switch on the wall to the right of the people in the closet. "Duh!" I said to myself. "That's what they make Photoshop for."

Using the cloning tool in Photoshop, it was quick and easy to replicate bits of the wall to cover over the annoying picture and light switch. It also occurred to me that many readers of this blog who do not work with images every day might not have thought of this solution, so it would make a good example of seeing beyond the materials at hand while designing marketing materials.

As you can see, the blank wall in the corrected photo came in very handy when I was actually doing the design and layout of the back of the postcard.