Graphics Programs Reference
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tortion filter to straighten things back up. You'll also learn how to use the Transform com-
mands to adjust or warp images.
Creating Panoramas
It's incredibly simple to make panoramas in Elements. You just tell the program which pho-
tos to use, and Elements automatically stitches them together.
Figure 11-1
shows what a great
job it does. (If you'd like to try creating this panorama yourself, you'll find
mountainA.jpg
,
mountainB.jpg
,
mountainC.jpg
, and
mountainD.jpg
on this topic's Missing CD page at
Figure 11-1. Here's a four-photo panorama made with Photomerge. The photos had big variations
in exposure and were taken without a tripod, but Elements still managed to take them straight from
the camera with no adjusting and blend them seamlessly.
Elements can merge as many photos as you want to include in a panorama. The real size lim-
itation comes when you want to
print
your compositions. If you create a five-photo horizont-
al panorama but your paper is letter size, for example, your printout will only be a couple of
inches high, even if you rotate the panorama to print lengthwise. However, if you're a panor-
ama addict, you can buy a special printer with attachments that let you print on rolls of paper,
so that there's no limit to the image's longest dimension. You can also use an online printing
service, like Shutterfly, to get larger prints than you can make at home. (See
Ordering Prints
for more about ordering prints online.)
