Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial page 81

Enhancing
Blur or soften edges
Replace colors in an image
Clone images or areas in an image
Photomerge Faces
Photomerge Exposure
Photomerge Style Match
Blur or soften edges
The Blur tool softens hard edges or areas in an image by reducing detail. Blurring a busy background can bring your target images more into
focus. You can also use Blur filters for this purpose.
Original photo (left), and photo after blurring the background (right).
1. Select the Blur tool.
2. Set options in the options bar:
Brush Sets the brush tip, from the brush popup menu. For more brush shapes, click the Brush drop-down inside the popup,
and then select a brush thumbnail.
Size Sets the size of the brush, in pixels. Drag the Size slider, or enter a size in the text box.
Mode Specifies how the pixels you blur blend into other pixels in the image.
Strength Specifies the amount of blur that occurs with each stroke.
Sample All Layers Blurs all visible layers. If this is deselected, the tool blurs only the active layer.
3. Drag over the part of the image you want to blur.
Replace colors in an image
The Color Replacement tool simplifies replacing specific colors in your image. You can paint over a targeted color—for example, a yellow flower in
an image—with a different color, like red. You can also use the Color Replacement tool to correct colors.
Replacing colors
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