PHOTO BOOKS, COLLAGES,CALENDARS AND CARDS - Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 for Photographers - page 410

Free Rotate Layer - Rotates the image when click-dragging outside of the marquee.
Skew - Skews the photo when dragging an edge handle.
Distort - Distorts the picture when moving any handle.
Perspective - Applies a perspective effect when dragging a corner handle.

Adding, replacing and removing photos

Photo Books do not become static documents once they are created. In the previous sec-
tion we saw how it is possible to adjust the size, position and orientation of both the photos
and frames that were added during the initial creation process, but the feature's flexibility
doesn't end there. You can also add new photos, replace existing pictures with alternative
choices and even remove images that you no longer want to keep. Here's how.

Adding new photos
All editing of Photo Books occurs in the
Create Tab workspace. So to add new pho-
tos to an existing layout you need to add
a new blank frame to the composition. Do
this by clicking on the selected frame in
the Artwork section of the Artwork panel
and pressing the Apply button. A new
frame will be created on the current page
of the document.

To add a photo to the frame, click-drag a
thumbnail from the Photo Bin to the frame or click the text in the empty frame and select a
photo from the file browser that opens. Using this approach you can add a photo without it
first having to be open in the Photo Bin. When moving the photo
make sure that the frame is highlighted with a blue rectangle
before releasing the mouse button to insert the picture.

Select a frame from the Ef-
fects panel and then click
Apply to add to the page.

The last part of the process is to fine-tune the picture by adjusting
size, orientation and position within the frame. Use the tech-
niques in the previous section to make these alterations.

Replacing existing photos
It is just as easy to replace existing photos with different images
whilst still retaining the frame. Select the frame first and then
click-drag a picture from the Photo Bin to the frame. This action
swaps the two pictures but you will need to have the replace-
ment image already open in the Full edit workspace beforehand.
If this isn't the case, then an alternative is to select the Replace

Click-drag a new photo to the blank frame.