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all the material you want to move. In the Photomerge Faces pane, you can adjust the
size of the Pencil tool's cursor if it's hard to see what you're doing, or if the tool is
grabbing too much of the surrounding area.
If Elements moves too much stuff from the source photo, in the Photomerge Faces
pane, click the Eraser tool, and then remove part of your line. Watch the preview in
the final image to see how you're changing the selection. To start over, click the Reset
icon (the arching blue arrow over a line) at the top of the pane.
7.
When you're happy, click Done
.
Elements creates your merge as a layered file. You can edit it using any tool to do
things like clean up the edges or manually clone (
The Clone Stamp
)
a little more ma-
terial than Elements moved. And you can make your image even sillier using the
Transform commands (
Correcting Lens Distortion
), the Liquify filter (
Liquifying
The Photomerge Faces pane includes two settings you can adjust:
▪
Show Strokes
. If you want to see what you're selecting with the Pencil tool, leave this
checkbox on.
▪
Show Regions
. Turn this on to see a translucent overlay on the final image, which makes
it easier to tell which parts you're copying over from your source photo. This is just like
the regions options for Exposure Merge (
Manual Merges
).
It would be nice if you could use this feature to merge things besides faces, but it doesn't do
a very good job of that. Even for faces, if you're doing something important, like repairing
an old photo with parts from another picture of the same person, you may prefer to create
your own selections and then manually move and adjust things (see
Moving Objects
Between Images
)
. But the Faces feature's alignment tools can simplify the process enough
that it's worth giving it a try to see if it can do what you want.
Arranging a Group Shot
Have you ever tried taking photos of a bunch of people? Almost every time, you get a photo
where everything is perfect—except for that one guy with his eyes shut. In another shot, that
guy is fine, but other people are yawning or looking away from the camera. You probably
thought, “Dang, I wish I could move Ed from that photo to this one. Then I'd have a perfect
