Retouching / reconstructing sections of a detailed image

[nryan_design]

I have an image I purchased from Adobe stock that has a white border on a background of leaves. For various reasons I want to remove the white border so that I just have leaves. Selecting the white sections and doing a content-aware fill does a decent job of repainting the texture of the leaves, but a dark shadow is left behind. Any ideas how I can retouch the image to look seamless?

[lambiloon]

Hi i think you can use clone stamp to retouch the image more closely to get rid of shadows....Regards

[gener7]

Marquee select the dark line, then Select menu > Modify > Expand the selection by 2 pixels as a start, and run Content Aware Fill again. Undo and try other values if not satisfied before saving and closing your file.

[Lumigraphics]

FIRST you select the white and use Curves or simply fill it to get as close as possible to the dark green color. THEN use Content-Aware fill, and finish up with clone/heal.