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 PhotoshopElements 3 Solutions.
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Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P11 Figure 11.11: The Layers palette of the blank file after copying and pasting the three images. 5. In the image window, position the images adjacent to each other, with a slight overlap, as shown in Figure 11.12. 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.284 Finally, select the bottom layer (but not the background layer), and in the image U S I N G C A M E R A R AW A N D O T H E R A D VA N C E D T E C H N I Q U E S ■ window move that image to the far right. Figure 11.12: 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 11: you have one), in the middle, and the image in the bottom layer (but not the background CHAPTER 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 11.13. (By the way, you could create Brightness/Contrast adjustment layers instead of Levels. It doesn’t matter. Just don’t touch any setting before clicking OK.) 285 ■ U S I N G A G R A D I E N T M A S K T O C O M B I N E M U LT I P L E I M A G E SFigure 11.13: After applying a Levels adjustment layer to each layer, your Layers palettewill look something like this.7. Now you need to rearrange the layers in the Layers palette. Move each adjust- ment layer below its image layer by dragging it into the desired position. Your Layers palette should look like the one in Figure 11.14.Figure 11.14: Move the adjustment layers below the image layers as shown here.8. Starting with the top layer, which contains the image located to the far left of ...