tailieunhanh - Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P11

Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P11: This book rocks! It is not just a revised version; this is a brand new edition. So much has changed in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 that it is practically a whole new program, and Mikkel Aaland has completed quite an amazing undertaking with Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions. | Figure The Layers palette of the blank file after copying and pasting the three images. 284 CHAPTER 11 USING CAMERA RAW AND OTHER ADVANCED TECHNIQUES 5. In the image window position the images adjacent to each other with a slight overlap as shown in Figure . Do this by selecting the top layer in the Layers palette and the Move tool from the toolbar. In the image window click and hold while dragging the image to the far left of the image window. Next select the second layer and in the image window move the middle image into the middle position allowing for a slight overlap with the image to the left. Finally select the bottom layer but not the background layer and in the image window move that image to the far right. Figure Position the images adjacent to each other with a slight overlap. Place the image contained in the top layer to the far left the image contained in the middle layer if you have one in the middle and the image in the bottom layer but not the background layer to the far right of the image window. At this point you ve finished the heavy lifting. Now it s time to finesse the images so the edges blend into one another. You ll do this by creating a gradient mask that allows only a portion of an image to show through. Because Photoshop Elements doesn t offer gradient masks per se you ll use a clever workaround that will turn an adjustment layer and a clipping path into one. 6. In the Layers palette starting with the top layer create a Levels adjustment layer for each layer click the Create Adjustment Layer button at the top of the palette and select Levels from the pop-up menu or choose Layer New Adjustment Layer Levels. Don t change anything in the Levels dialog box that appears. Just click the OK button. Apply an adjustment layer to each image layer until your Layers palette looks like the one in Figure . By the way you could create Brightness Contrast adjustment layers instead of Levels. It doesn t matter. Just don t touch any .