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.
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.
The Clone Stamp tool paints with an image sample, which you can use to duplicate objects, remove image imperfections, or paint over objects in your photo.
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Brush
Sets the brush tip. Click the arrow next to the brush sample, choose a brush category from the Brushes pop‑up menu, and then select a brush thumbnail.
Sample All Layers
To sample (copy) data from all visible layers, select Sample All Layers. To sample data from only the active layer, deselect this option.
Opacity
Sets the opacity of the paint you apply. A low opacity setting allows pixels under a paint stroke to show through. Drag the slider, or enter an opacity value.
Mode
Determines how the source or pattern blends with existing pixels. Normal mode lays new pixels over the original pixels.
Aligned
Moves the sampled area with the cursor as you begin to paint, regardless of how many times you stop and resume painting. Selecting this option is useful when you want to eliminate unwanted areas, such as a telephone line across the skyline or a rip in a scanned photo. If Aligned is deselected, the Clone Stamp tool applies the sampled area from the initial sampling point each time you stop and resume painting. Deselecting this option is useful for applying multiple copies of the same part of an image to different areas within the same image or to another image.
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Note:
For a video about Photomerge features, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid2342_pse9_en.
Note:
For a video about Photomerge features, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid2342_pse9_en.
Use Photomerge Exposure to efficiently handle scenes in photos with exposure challenges. You can blend two photos together to get a perfectly exposed photo. For example, if you have a photo with a window in the background and you want a perfect photo with the following properties:
A good exposure of the scenery outside the window.
A good exposure of the darker objects inside the room.
In such a scenario, you often end up with either overexposed scenery outside the window or underexposed objects inside the room.
To ensure that you get a perfect photo, do the following:
Take two or more photos of the same scene with different exposures. For best results, take the photos at different exposure value, with minimum shake. For example:
You can take two or more photos with the flash turned on to properly expose the subject (the objects inside the room).
You can then take one photo with the flash turned off to properly expose the background (the scenery outside the window).
Tip: You can use Exposure Bracketing in your camera to capture the same subject with a number of shots with different exposure settings.
Blend the photos to create a perfectly exposed photo.
Photomerge Exposure facilitates blending the two photos together to get a perfectly exposed photo.
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To obtain best results while using the Automatic mode, use photos that are shot at different exposure values, using Exposure Bracketing. To obtain best results while using the manual mode, use photos shot with flash turned on and flash turned off.
You can select the required photos from Elements Organizer, and select and deselect the photos through the Photo Bin.
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For Photomerge Exposure, if you are using photos that have been taken with your flash on, then manual Photomerge Exposure is the default mode.
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- In Elements Organizer, select a minimum of two and a maximum of ten photos and select Enhance > Photomerge > Photomerge Exposure.
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Change the transparency of these selected regions to blend them properly with the background by using the Transparency Slider. Select Edge Blending to smoothen the blended edges.
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Transparency Slider affects only those regions that are selected from the currently displayed source image. Change to a different source image if you want to change the transparency of the regions selected from the other images. It remembers the value used for a particular image. If the slider is not changed, the default is set to 0.
