Extending background

[Dasha]

Hi Damien, How can I extend the background here please? I've tried replacing it with several gradient layers but its not looking great! Am on the right track? Ignore the bad masking, this was super quick trying to figure it all ouT. Thanks

[Damien Symonds]

It looks very ... circular, doesn't it?

What about this?

[Dasha]

Lol omg mine looks even worse now next yours! 

[Dasha]

How do you do that please, it's exactly what I wanted

[Damien Symonds]

I'm so sorry about the delay.  Your edit was the last thing I did before I went to bed last night.  Give me a few minutes, I'll upload the file.

[Damien Symonds]

Download the PSD file

Done using this method.

[Dasha]

Thanks so much, I will have a look once my kid is asleep again ? I was looking at that article but couldn't understand how to "make" the floor bit shadow. Uhm I'm not good with explaining myself haha

[Dasha]

Is this ok?

[Dasha]

oh gosh it looks really awful on my phone and banding badly! looks much nicer on my screen and no banding. Normally its the other way around, phone makes it brighter and prettier lol

[Dasha]

Actually wait, it's not banding on my phone but banded when I sent through fb messenger on my phone. Is that messenger compression messing it up? 

[Damien Symonds]

32 minutes ago, Dasha said:

Actually wait, it's not banding on my phone but banded when I sent through fb messenger on my phone. Is that messenger compression messing it up? 

Of course.  Facebook compresses everything.

1 hour ago, Dasha said:

Is this ok?

It's great, well done!

[Dasha]

Super! Many thanks ❤️