The Adjust Facial Features workflow uses face-aware technology to identify and adjust facial characteristics of people in a photograph. You can take a portrait picture and adjust facial features like the jaw, nose, lips, and eyes by using simple sliders to increase or decrease an effect.
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In the Adjust Facial Features dialog, you will notice that the face of the person is marked with a circular highlighter to indicate that the face-aware feature has found a face in the picture.
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More than one face in the picture? If there are more than one faces in the picture, there will be multiple circular highlighters indicating where Photoshop Elements was able to detect faces. Click a ring or a face to adjust the features of that face.
Select a face and adjust the facial characteristics of a person
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Feature Characteristics
Lips Smile, Height, Width, Upper lip, Lower lip Eyes Height, Width, Size, Tilt, Distance Nose Height, Width Face Width, Forehead height, Jawbone shape, Chin height Bemærk:
Click the Before/After toggle button to review the changes caused by moving the sliders left or right.
Move the sliders to make effect changes on the face.
Red eye is a common issue that occurs when your photo subject's retina is illuminated by your camera's flash. You’ll see it more often when taking pictures in a darkened room because the subject’s iris is wide open. To avoid red eye, use the camera’s red-eye reduction feature, if available.
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To automatically fix red eye when you import photos into the Elements Organizer, select Automatically Fix Red Eyes in the Get Photos dialog box. You can also remove red eye from selected photos in the Photo Browser.

The Eye tool enables you to remove the reddish glow in the eyes, due to reflection of light (resulting from low ambient light or the use of a flash). For animals, the eyes glow white, green, red, or yellow, and the often-used red-eye removal tools may not fix the effect correctly.

The Open Closed Eyes feature lets you open closed eyes in your photos. You can open a person's eyes by using the eyes from another photo from your computer or the Elements Organizer catalog.
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Do one of the following:
- Click Computer to select a source photo from your computer.
- Click Organizer to select a source photo from the Elements Organizer.
- Click Photo Bin to select a source photo from the currently opened files.
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You can select multiple source photos if you want. Photoshop Elements uses faces from these source photos to replace the closed eyes in the main photo. You can experiment with different eye replacements to find the best results.
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Select a face in the main photo whose eyes need to be opened, and then click on any of the faces from the source photos. Try different faces to find the best results.
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In case the source photo has a different skin tone, Photoshop Elements matches the skin tone around the eyes with the main photo.
The Content-Aware Move tool allows you to select an object in your photograph and move the selection to a different location, or extend it.

Photoshop Elements has several tools you can use to remove small flaws, such as spots or unwanted objects, from your images.
The Spot Healing Brush quickly removes blemishes and other imperfections from your photos. You can either click once on a blemish, or drag to smooth away imperfections in an area.

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Proximity Match
Uses the pixels around the edge of the selection to find an image area to use as a patch for the selected area. If this option doesn’t provide a satisfactory fix, choose Edit > Undo, and try the Create Texture option.
Create Texture
Uses all the pixels in a selection to create a texture for fixing the area. If the texture doesn’t work, try dragging through the area a second time.
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Click Sample All Layers to apply your change to all layers of the image.
You can remove unwanted objects or figures from your photos without destroying the photos. Using the Content-Aware option with the Spot Healing Brush tool, you can remove selected objects from a photo. Photoshop Elements compares nearby image content to seamlessly fill the selection, realistically maintaining key details such as shadows and object edges.

Spot healing works best on small objects. If the image you're working on is large and has a large unwanted object, make sure that you work with high-end computer configuration. You can see the Photoshop Elements system requirements for the recommended computer configuration.
If you experience problems with large images, try the following approaches:
- Draw smaller brush strokes at a time.
- Downsample the image.
- Increase the RAM allocated and relaunch the application.
The Healing Brush fixes large areas of imperfection when you drag over them. You can remove objects from a uniform background, such as an object in a field of grass.

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Mode
Determines how the source or pattern blends with existing pixels. Normal mode lays new pixels over the original pixels. Replace mode preserves film grain and texture at the edges of the brush stroke.
Source
Sets the source to use for repairing pixels. Sampled uses pixels from the current image. Pattern uses pixels from the pattern you specify in the Pattern panel.
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Drag the image over the flaw to meld existing data with sampled data. The sampled pixels meld with the existing pixels each time you release the mouse button.
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If there is a strong contrast at the edges of the area you want to heal, make a selection before you use the Healing Brush tool. Make the selection bigger than the area you want to heal but precisely follow the boundary of contrasting pixels. When you paint with the Healing Brush tool, the selection prevents colors from bleeding from the outside.
The Correct Camera Distortion dialog box enables you to fix common lens distortion problems, like darkened edges due to lens faults or improper lens shading. For example, in a picture of the sky taken in low light, the corners of the image are darker than the center. Changing the vignette amount and midtone settings fixes the distortion.
Adjust distortions due to vertical or horizontal camera tilt by using the perspective controls. Rotate an image or fix image perspective to adjust distortions. The filter image grid for Correct Camera Distortion helps you make easy and accurate adjustments.

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Remove Distortion
Corrects lens barrel or pincushion distortion. Type a number in the box, or move the slider to straighten horizontal and vertical lines that bend either away from or toward the center of the image.
Vignette Amount
Sets the amount of lightening or darkening along the edges of an image. Type a number in the box, or move the slider to gradually shade the image.
Vignette Midpoint
Specifies the width of area affected by the Amount slider. Move the slider, or type a lower number to affect more of the image. Type a higher number to restrict the effect to the edges of the image.
Vertical Perspective
Corrects image perspective caused by tilting the camera up or down. Type a number in the box or use the slider to make vertical lines in an image parallel.
Horizontal Perspective
Type a number in the box or use the slider to correct perspective by making horizontal lines in an image parallel.
Angle
Rotates the image to correct for camera tilt or to make adjustments after correcting perspective. Type a number in the box or drag the angle dial to rotate the image to the left (counterclockwise) or right (clockwise).
Scale
Adjusts the image scale up or down. The image pixel dimensions aren’t changed. Type a number in the box or use the slider to remove blank areas of the image caused by pincushion, rotation, or perspective corrections. Scaling up effectively results in cropping the image and interpolating up to the original pixel dimensions.
You can now remove the dampening effect that environmental or atmospheric conditions have on your pictures, particularly photos of landscapes. Using the Auto Haze Removal feature, you can reduce the masking effect that haze, fog, or smog creates.
To use the Auto Haze Removal feature:
- Open an picture in Photoshop Elements, in the Quick or Expert modes.
- With the image open, choose Enhance > Auto Haze Removal.
The image is processed and the effects of haze or fog are reduced. Repeat Step 2, to further process the photograph.
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Auto Haze Removal works better on uncompressed/raw images.


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Low levels of haze removal applied
Haze removal applied until the picture is clearer
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Remember that using too much of either of the sliders may result in an image with high levels of contrast or minor imperfections in the photograph getting magnified. Play with both sliders till you get the right result.