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Figure 9-11. If you turn on the Pattern Stamp's Impressionist checkbox, Elements blurs the pattern,
creating an effect vaguely like an Impressionist painting—but only if you use a soft brush. Here you
see the same pattern put down with the Pattern Stamp using different settings: with the Impression-
ist setting turned off (left), and with the Impressionist checkbox turned on using a hard brush (cen-
ter) and a very soft brush (right).
The Recompose tool is one of the coolest features in Elements. It lets you eliminate un-
wanted objects and people from a photo just by scribbling a line over them and then moving
the edges of the photo to reshape it. Amazingly, Elements can keep the rest of the photo un-
distorted as it makes the unwanted objects vanish.
Figure 9-12
shows what this tool can do.
