Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P8

Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P8: 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- P8 Applying Perspective Control Look at the Settings box in the Photomerge work area shown in Figure 8.3. You’ll see that Normal is selected and Perspective is not. Normal is the default setting, which works fine for most landscape and scenic shots. However, at times applying a perspec- tive improves a panoramic and makes it look more natural. Often you won’t know unless you try. To apply a perspective to my panoramic, I selected Perspective from the Settings box; Figure 8.4 shows the results. The perspective didn’t look right to me but I can try to fix it by setting a different vanishing point. By default, if Perspective is selected, Photomerge makes the middle image the vanishing point, and outlines it in a light blue border when it is selected.194 C R E AT I N G PA N O R A M I C S W I T H P H O T O M E R G E ■ Figure 8.4: Here is the image after applying Perspective control. The vanishing point, by default, is set to the middle image, outlined in blue. 8: CHAPTER What is a vanishing point? It’s helpful to think of the vanishing point image as a base image, or one that sets the perspective for all the others. For example, if the vanishing point image is in the middle, as it is in this example, the images on either side are transformed so that they lead the eye toward the center. If you look again at Figure 8.4, you’ll see the bow-tie configuration that I found objectionable. To try another vanishing point, I simply selected the Set Vanishing Point tool ( ) and clicked another image in the work area. In Figure 8.5, I made the image on the left the vanishing point. See what happens to the perspective? In an attempt to cor- rect the perspective to the new point of view, the images to the right of the vanishing point are transformed in size and shape. To deselect the vanishing point completely and start over, I simply clicked the Normal radio button. Undo works for this as well. 195Figure 8.5: This is the result after I applied Perspective control and set the vanishing point ■ C R E AT I N G A P R E C I O U S V I E Wto the image on the far left, outlined in blue. After experimenting with different vanishing points, I decided to turnPerspective off and go with the Normal setting.Manually Arranging ImagesIn this example, Photomerge automatically arranged my images. But what happens ifyour images are shot in such a way that they don’t easily match up and Photomergecannot automatically arrange them? If this happens, you’ll see the dialog box shown inFigure 8.6. Then you will need to arrange the images yourself.Figure 8.6: This dialog box appears if Photomerge can’t automatically arrange your images.If this happens, you can still try to arrange them manually. You do this by dragging images from Photomerge’s lightbox into the main work area. Figure 8.7 shows how I have started this process by dragging two of the six ...