Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
If you don't select any photos first, you'll see a dialog box where you can click Open
All to open the first two photos in the bin. (You can work with only two photos at a
time when using Photomerge Compose.)
Elements makes copies of your photos as it goes, so this process won't alter your ori-
ginal images.
2.
In the Photomerge Compose window, drag the image containing the object you
want to move into the preview area
.
Elements will open a copy of the other image, the one where you're going to place the
object, when the time comes. You don't have to do anything about that photo.
3.
Select the object you want to move
.
The pane on the right side of the window offers you two familiar selection tools:
Quick Select and Selection Edit (both explained in
Chapter 5
), and one that's unique
to this window: Outline Select, which works something like the Lasso tool. You draw
a line around what you want to select and, when you come back to the beginning and
connect up to where you started, Elements selects everything inside the line you drew.
Elements puts a red mask over the unselected part of the image so you can see your
selection better (just like using the Selection Brush in mask mode).
There's a zoom slider at the upper right of the preview area to help you focus in on
what you're doing.
