Adobe 65045315 Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 187
Recompose a photo in a photo project, Recompose options, Preset, Amount, Highlight Skin Tones
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USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 181 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Recompose a photo in a photo project You can use the Recompose tool to Recompose photos in the following photo projects: • Photo Book • Greeting Card • Photo Collage 1 Create a photo book, greeting card, or a photo collage. 2 Right-click the photo in the photo project, and select Recompose Photo. 3 (Optional) Mark the areas you want to protect using the Protect brush . Green indicates the protected areas. You can use the green Eraser tool regions. to erase portions of unwanted marked Note: Recompose can also be performed without using the Protect Areas option. For example, to recompose a photo without marking any areas for protection or removal, drag the image handles . 4 (Optional) Mark the areas you want to remove using the Remove brush tool . Red indicates the areas marked for removal. You can use the red Eraser tool to erase portions of unwanted areas marked for removal. You can specify the size of the brush and the photo. 5 Drag the image handles to Recompose your photo. On completion, click the Commit current operation icon . More Help topics "Creating projects in the Edit workspace" on page 273 Recompose options You can use the following options while using the Recompose tool. Size Enables you to define the brush size. Preset Used to specify the ratio that you want to use for resizing. Preset works on the photo ratio and not the dimensions of the photo. For example, if you use a preset ratio 3x5, the image is resized using this ratio. If you want to scale the photo using the same ratio, hold the Shift key and drag the corner handles. A preset that crops the image in the 16:9 ratio has been added to the Preset menu. Note: If you don't hold down the Shift key, the image is resized in any ratio. Amount Used to set the Recompose threshold. Setting the threshold to 100% indicates a 100% Recompose. If it is set to 0%, then the behavior of Recompose tool is similar to the Transform tool. Highlight Skin Tones Identifies and highlights skin tones for protection. You can preserve regions that contain skin tones. Click the Highlight Skin Tones icon to view the suggested skin tones region. To erase the identified regions that contain skin tones, use the Protect Eraser tool, or right-click the image and select Clear Protect Highlights. Swap Width And Height Used to swap the values specified for height and width. For example, you have specified the following values: H: 10 and W: 15. Click the Swap Height and Width icon to interchange these values. The new values are: H: 15 and W: 10. Last updated 1/2/2012