Dave shows you how to take out a power line from a photo using selection techniques.
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Selections and Blending
Learn more about how to make great selections, and how to move objects and backgrounds from one photo to another.
Making composite images that look realistic can be a complicated task. Here, Matt shows you how to make a quick, clean selection, and then how to merge it seamlessly into a new background.
Dave shows some cool and practical ways to use masking, compositing and Free Transform to apply images to objects.
This video walks you through the options found in the Refine Edge command.
Taking a subject from one photo and adding it to a new background is easy; making it believable is another story. In this advanced tutorial, Liz shows you how to create a great composite image by paying attention to the little details.
This companion piece to Liz Ness’ “Composite Master Class,” from the May/June issue, shows Liz’s method for creating the quick extraction of a subject from a background.
Matt shows a few tricks for removing people or objects from a background using the Magic Extractor tool, as well as some tips for cleaning up selections.
Using displacement maps, Matt shows you how to “wrap” one graphic onto another.
Liz turned a happy accident into a new technique for creating masks inside Photoshop Elements.
For a fun twist on the traditional portrait, alter vintage illustrations by swapping in the faces of family and friends. Download the samples and follow along as Diana shows you how to blend two different images into a seamless whole
You don’t have to settle for dull, gray skies. Simply borrow a blue sky from another shot.
Discover the wonders of blend modes and textures—and make a simple but effective collage with your photos.
Eliminating distracting objects from a photo isn’t hard; it just takes a little bit of patience and the right tools.
Dave shows you how to take the best of two images and combine them into one great shot!
Corey demonstrates how to combine several images into a silhouette shape.
Have you ever needed a selection that uses a non-traditional geometric shape? Something other than a standard rectangle or oval created with one of the Marquee tools? You can use any of the shape tools to generate a selection in that shape. Here’s how, along with just one possible project.
If you have a cute photo of a child you wish to use for a fairy-tale image, but don’t care for the background, try selecting the child to place in a new background.
Dave shows you how to make a hair brush to ease the transition of edges.
Using your own backgrounds for extracted images is easy; Diana shows you a number of ways to make your own, and offers links to sites with backgrounds and textures you can use.
Photoshop Elements provides several selection tools, all of which will do an effective job of selecting a subject to extract it from the background. My favorite approach, although it may seem unconventional to some users, is to use the Polygonal Lasso tool.
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