ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9
Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos
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Create a Photomerge panorama interactively
Generally, the automatic options in the Photomerge dialog box create satisfactory panoramas. If these options don’t
produce the results you want, select the Interactive Layout option. The Photomerge dialog box for interactive layouts
lets you manually rearrange your source images.
1 Choose the Interactive Layout option in the main Photomerge dialog box to open the Photomerge interactive
dialog box.
2 Do any of the following:
• Select Reposition Only and Snap To Image to preserve the alignment at overlapping image areas.
Photoshop Elements applies blending to even out differences of exposure between the source images.
• Select Perspective and Photoshop Elements selects one of the source images to supply a vanishing point. It also
stretches or skews the other images to create a wraparound effect. Use the Vanishing Point tool to change the
vanishing point and reorient the perspective.
3 Drag the images to the work area and manually arrange them.
4 After arrange the composition, click OK to generate the panorama as a new file. The composition then opens in
Photoshop Elements.
The Photomerge dialog box for interactive layouts
The Photomerge dialog box contains tools for manipulating the composition, a lightbox for storing source images that
are not in use, a work area for assembling the composition, and options for viewing and editing the composition. You
can also zoom in and out to better see the alignment of each file.
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Photomerge interactive layout dialog box.
A. Lightbox B. Tools C. Work area D. Selected image E. Status bar
• To navigate, select the Move View tool and drag within the work area. Or, drag the view area (the red box) or
the scroll bar of the navigator.
Last updated 1/27/2011