Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 Part H

This is the 8th and last installment in my blog series on Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 which I base on what I learn on the VTC training course. I will start another series from tomorrow on something else. Anyway getting back to Elements 9. A very in thing in digital photography is HDR or High Dynamic Range Photography. You can do a little bit of this in Elements. It involves having several photos of the same thing on different layers, dragging one onto the other in layers and making them opaque. The sensor in a camera only detects typically 4,000 colours which is far less than the human eye and can make photos look a bit unreal. Pictures taken at different exposures increase those colours when combined and result in a more realistic photo. You should use a tripod to take the photos which of course in other respects should be identical. For Panoramic Stitching the pictures should overlap by 30-50%. You select file/ photomerge panorama. You add the open files, leave on auto and select blend images together. You click ok, select no to the request to fill in the edges and crop the photo. Note these photos due to being combined can have a large file size so that might need adjusting prior to sending in email or putting on the web. If you are creating something like a calendar, collage or photo book there are options like print locally or via a website that will post it to you. You can print a photo book via shutterfly or kodak. The photos are placed in a book in a default way & it is just a matter of dragging them with the mouse and adding things like text. With calendars you can print locally or via kodak. You have to choose your starting month and year. There are various options like text style and page color. You also type in the month for each photo and a description. You might have to resize photos and then you click order and are taken to the kodak site. It should arrive in 10-14 days. I hope enjoyed reading this series as much as I have. The next series might be drupal or joomla & I might start that later tonight.