Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial page 103

Recomposing
Recompose a photo in Guided mode
Recompose a photo in Expert mode
Recompose options
The Recompose tool facilitates intelligent resizing of photos without changing important visual content such as people, building, animals, and more.
Normal scaling affects all pixels uniformly when resizing an image. Recompose affects pixels in areas that don't have important visual content.
Recompose enables you to upscale or downscale images to improve a composition, fit a layout, or change the orientation.
If you want to preserve or remove specific areas when scaling an image, Recompose enables you to protect content intelligently during resizing.
Note: Recompose can also be performed without using the protect areas option. For example, to recompose a photo without marking any areas
for protection or removal, drag the image handles.
Before Recompose (left) and after Recompose
A. Photo selected for Recompose B. Areas marked for protection (green) and for removal (red) C. Photo after Recompose
Recompose a photo in Guided mode
1. Open a photo in the photo bin that you want to resize, and select the Guided mode.
2. In the Guided mode panel, expand Touchups, and select Recompose.
3. Mark the areas you want to protect using the Protect brush. Right-click the photo, and select one of the following modes:
Use Normal Highlight
circle using Normal Highlight requires marking or painting the entire circle.
Use Quick Highlight
required regions. For example, to highlight the area within a circle, trace the boundary of the circle. Quick Highlight ensures
that the area within the circle is marked for protection.
You can specify the size of the brush and the photo.
Green indicates the areas marked for protection.
4. To erase portions of unwanted marked areas (green), right-click the photo, and select Clear Protect Highlights.
This mode is similar to painting. Mark all the regions that require protection. For example, protecting a
You can quickly highlight the required regions for protection. Encircle the subject to highlight the
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