Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
shot.” Adobe heard you, and Group Shot is the result. It's designed for moving one person in
a group from one photo to another, similar photo.
You launch Group Shot by going to Enhance→Photomerge→Photomerge Group Shot in
either Quick Fix or Expert mode. The steps for using Group Shot are the same as for Faces,
except that you don't normally need to align the photos, since Group Shot is intended for
situations where you were saying, “Just one more, everybody!” as opposed to moving people
from photos taken at different times with different angles and lighting.
If you
do
need to align your photos, you can do that by clicking the Advanced Options but-
ton in the Photomerge Group Shot pane. Then just place the markers the same way you do in
Faces (see
Figure 11-4
), and then click Align Photos. Another advanced option is Pixel
Blending, which adjusts the moved material to make it closer in tone to the rest of the final
image.
NOTE
It would be great if you could use Group Shot for things like creating a photo showing
several generations of your family by combining parts of photos taken over many years.
But Group Shot moves someone from the source photo and pastes that person into the
same spot
in the final photo, and then creates a composite layer in the completed merge.
That means Elements merges the relocated person into the Background image rather than
leaving him as an extracted object, so you can't put that person in a different spot. So you
need to tackle your generational-photo project the old-fashioned way: by moving each
person onto a separate layer and then repositioning everybody where you want them.
Tidying Up with Scene Cleaner
You've probably had this experience when showing your vacation photos: “Here's a shot of
Jodi and Taylor at the rim of the Grand Canyon. Those other people? No idea who they are;
they just walked into the shot.” Scene Cleaner was made to fix photos like that. It lets you
eliminate unwanted people or elements in images to create photos like the ones you see in
travel magazines that show famous sights in their lonely glory, without any tourists cluttering
up the scene.
