Creating more room in a photo

Hi,
As you'll see in the attached, the layout looks top heavy because there is not nearly
as much room below the lightbulb as there is above it.
Isn't there a way to make a selction of a piece of the bottom (or top), flip it and then
paste a few times to make it seem as though the photo has more space (and is seamless
-no line showing that the new space is a copy of a selected area from a different part of the photo)
on the bottom?
Thanks.

So many ways to skin a cat with Photoshop. Sometimes CAF needs to be approached in smaller bites, but I tried fixing that corner and it was not doing a good job at all. In fact it was doing a terrible job.
So change to the Smudge tool (a very usful and underused tool IMO) Experiment with brushe size, but go with about 5% to 10% of the image height. (I'll explain why later).
Set the strength to about 50%. and try a few practice strokes dragging the rays to the edge of the image. If you are having problems with accuracy, touch down at the start point, and then again at the end point while holding down the shift key. That will produce perfectly straight lines.
The one limitation with this technique is that it will produce parallel lines, where as you need radial lines. That's why you need to keep the brush size relatively small.
OK, another way:
Copy the layer, and go Filter > Blur > Radial blur, and choose Zoom
The hard bit is estimating where to put the axis, but use your best judgement.
Click OK, and turn the layer off and on to see how well you placed the axis. If OK, add a layer mask > Invert it > paint in the rays on the left with a big soft white brush.
Another way:
Copy the layer and bring up Free Transform, and move the center handle to the axis point of the rays. Hold down the Alt and Shift keys, and drag one of the corner handles out to expand the layer by about 10% - 20%.
Use a layer mask as in the lst examples.
Personally I would use the Smudge tool, no contest, but the more tricks you have in your Photoshop toolbox, the better.

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