With a little understanding of the tips and techniques industry pros use, you’ll be able to leverage optimal control over the selection process.
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Making Selections and Blending Images Together
While there are many ways to select pixels, let’s start with the original selection tool: the Lasso.
Combining certain elements of two photos can enhance the message you want to get across, whether it’s for an advertisement or a humorous mash-up for a digital art contest.
Dave shows you how to combine two images with adjusted exposure via Camera Raw.
In Part 3 of a 3-part series, Matt takes you through how to use the last of the most important blend modes: Overlay and Soft Light.
In Part 1 of a 3-part series, Matt takes you through how to use one of the most important blend modes: Multiply.
The displacement map is a a wonderful tool inside Elements that lets you superimpose one image (like a texture or a flag) on parts of 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.
For some time, subscriber and Elements Village member Johnny Vera has been showcasing his “Multiple Johnny” shots in the member galleries and has been helping other members create their own compositions.
You don’t have to settle for dull, gray skies. Simply borrow a blue sky from another shot.
Corey demonstrates how to combine several images into a silhouette shape.
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.
Dave shows you the quick selection tool and interest to an otherwise flat image.
Dave shows you how to make a hair brush to ease the transition of edges.
Eliminating distracting objects from a photo isn’t hard; it just takes a little bit of patience and the right tools.
In Part 2 of a 3-part series, Matt takes you through how to use another one of the most important blend modes: Screen.
Corey expands on his earlier clipping mask video to show you how to apply some interesting effects to you photos.
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