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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements Bring out the best in your images using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835469385
Length 544 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
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Preface 1. Color keys
2. Chapter 1: Photoshop Elements Features Overview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch 4. Chapter 3: The Basics of Image Editing 5. Chapter 4: Getting Started with Simple Solutions 6. Chapter 5: Easy Creative Projects 7. Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques: Transformations, Layers, Masking, and Blend Modes 8. Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text 9. Chapter 8: Additional Tools and Features 10. Chapter 9: Advanced Drawing, Painting and Illustration Techniques 11. Chapter 10: Exporting Work, Sharpening, and Plug-ins 12. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting and Additional Techniques 13. Chapter 12: Feature Appendix 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

How can I add a person from another picture?

This is where we get a bit ambitious. If you are OK with basic retouching (using the Healing Brush Tool and the Clone Stamp Tools), you'll find copying from one image to a second reasonably easy. Best results come from choosing what I call 'simple' images, ones that don't have complex detailed backgrounds—this makes selecting one subject to paste into another image much easier. Also make sure that the two photos are the same orientation (i.e. vertical/horizontal) and the same, or similar resolution (i.e. two 24Mb files). If you use wildly different resolution files, what you paste into the second photo will be too big or too small. To fix this, use Elements' excellent Resize feature to bring the smaller resolution picture to the same size as the larger one (Image>Resize>Image Size, then make sure that the Resample checkbox is ticked before resizing).

Open both files, and from the...

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