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USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8
Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos
Last updated 7/26/2011
Recompose a photo in a photo project
You can also 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 to erase portions of unwanted marked
regions.
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 also specify the size of the photo.
5 Drag the image handles to Recompose your photo.
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.
More Help topics
“Making projects” on page 247
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 on 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.
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.
