You’ll crop that out in the next step.ĥ Select the Crop tool ( ) from the Toolbox and draw a marquee around the image to crop out some of the foreground area. Although it did a great job in the sky area, the grass contains some repeat patterns that causes the foreground to look unrealistic. The panorama after allowing Photomerge to fill in the edge pixels.Īs you can see, the content-aware technology built into Photoshop Elements 10 does an amazing job of filling in areas in a realistic way. This feature utilizes the new content-aware technology that can fill in areas intelligently by analyzing surrounding pixels to create a seamless transition between existing pixel information and new pixel information. The Photomerge process always creates an excess background area that must be cropped.Ĥ When Photoshop Elements is finished processing the image, a dialog box appears asking if you’d like to fill in the edges of your panorama. Each image is converted into its own layer, and any areas that are extraneous-the ones that aren’t needed to produce a completed panorama-are masked out and hidden using a layer mask for maximum flexibility if editing is needed. The number of layers depends on the number of individual images you used in the Photomerge process. The panorama is a new document with four layers arranged to align the different images.
Leave Files chosen in the Use drop-down menu and click the Add Open Files button to add the open files in the Editor to the list of files in the Photomerge dialog box.ģ Press OK and wait while Photoshop Elements opens and closes windows to create your panorama. All four images are opened in the Photoshop Elements Editor and the Photomerge dialog box appears.Ģ In the Photomerge dialog box, leave Auto chosen in the Layout section to allow Photomerge to determine the best layout method based on the analysis it performs of the images during the Photomerge process. Select all four images by clicking on the first image, then Shift+clicking on the last image and choose File > New > Photomerge Panorama. The strong, distinctive lines that are running through the pictures make this a good candidate for creating a panorama.ġ In the Organizer, type farmland in the Search text field to display the four images that you’ll use to create the panorama.
In the next exercise, you’ll use a series of four incremental photos of a river running through farmland. If you have photos of a wide scene, like a landscape, you can join them together into a single image. Do this by choosing Window > Reset Panels or by pressing the Reset panels button ( ) in the Options bar. Before starting, make sure your tools and panels are consistent with the examples presented in these lessons by resetting the panels. Within the Photoshop Elements Editor: The Photoshop Elements Editor defaults to the last panel layout that you used. See “Adding files and folders to the Organizer” located in Lesson 1. In order to access these files in the Organizer, you need to import them. Make sure that you have downloaded the Lessons folder onto your hard–drive. Within the Photoshop Elements Organizer: You will work with several files from the Lessons folder in this lesson. Slide shows, photo books, calendars, and collages can easily be created. Photoshop Elements offers a variety of ways to enhance and share your photos with others. Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Making Photoshop Elements Creations in Photoshop Elements It is the tenth lesson in the Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Digital Classroom book. This tutorial provides you with a foundation for working with Adobe Photoshop Elements creations. What you’ll learn in this Photoshop Elements Tutorial: