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USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10
Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos
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Use Photomerge Group Shot
For a video about photomerge features, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid2342_pse9_en.
Use Photomerge Group Shot to create the perfect group photo from multiple photos.
Note: For best results, pick the multiple images used to create a Photomerge Group Shot from the same photo session.
1 Do one of the following to select the group photos you want to use as source images for the Photomerge Group Shot:
• In Elements Organizer, select the photos.
• In the Edit workspace, open the photos.
2 Choose File > New > Photomerge Group Shot.
Select the best group photo, and drag it from the Project Bin to the Final window.
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Click other photos in the Project Bin (color coded to help you keep track). Use the Pencil tool to mark over the areas
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that you want to merge into the final photo. To fine-tune the final image, use the Pencil tool to add additional
content, or the Eraser tool to remove content.
Set any of the following:
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Click this option to show the Pencil strokes you marked in the source image.
Show Strokes
Click this option to reveal the selected regions in the final image.
Show Regions
Expand or collapse this arrow for Advanced Options.
Advanced Options
To correct the alignment of multiple photos, click the Alignment Tool, place three markers in the
Alignment Tool
source image and three markers in the final image, then click Align Photos.
Note: Photomerge Group Shot uses auto alignment. Use the Alignment Tool only if the automatic alignment didn't
produce the expected result.
Click this option to blend pixels.
Pixel Blending
6 Click Reset to start the process over, Done to complete the Photomerge Group Shot, or Cancel to close Photomerge
Group Shot.
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