Photomerge - Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 for Photographers - page 384

The Perspective settings option, together with the Set Vanishing Point tool, manipulates the
perspective of your panorama and its various parts. Keep in mind when using the perspec-
tive tools that the first image that is positioned in the Composition area is the base image
(light green border), which determines the perspective of all other image parts (red border).
To change the base image, click on another image part with the Set Vanishing Point tool.
It is not possible to use the perspective correction tools for images with an angle of view
greater than 120°, so make sure that these options are turned off. After making the final
adjustments, the panorama can be completed by clicking the OK button in the Photomerge
Panorama dialog box. This action creates a layered stitched file.

You can move source
images to and from the
Light box and Layout
areas by clicking and
dragging them.

PRO'S TIPS

Interactive Layout workflow:
1 Select Photomerge Panorama from the Enhance menu to start a new panorama.
2 Click the Browse button in the dialog box.
3 Search through the thumbnails of your files to locate the pictures for your pan-
orama.
4 Click the Open button to add files to the Source Files section of the dialog.
5 Choose the Interactive Layout option at the base of the list.
6 Select OK to open the Photomerge Panorama main workspace. Edit the layout of
your source images.
7 To change the view of the images use the Move View tool or change the scale and
the position of the whole composition with the Navigator.
8 Images can be dragged to and from the Light box to the work area with the Select
Image tool.
9 With the Snap to Image function turned on, Photomerge Panorama will match
like details of different images when they are dragged over each other.
10 Ticking the Perspective box will instruct Elements to use the first image placed
into the layout area as the base for the composition of the whole panorama.

1. Holding the Alt key
lets you see borders
around the images
you hover over, so it is
easier to select a new
Vanishing Point.

2. Ctrl Z (Undo) is
handy in this dialog
because sometimes
when you don't like a
perspective correction
and uncheck it, the re-
sult is not as it was be-
fore you applied the
perspective.