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Photomerge

Photomerge is Adobe’s very own stitching technology designed, initially, to blend together several overlapping images to form a panoramic photograph. In the last few versions of Elements, the utility has received a complete overhaul and can now be used for other stitching tasks as well. The tasks are broken down into five distinct ways of using the utility – Photomerge Group Shot, Photomerge Faces, Photomerge Scene Cleaner, Photomerge Panorama and the new Photomerge Exposure feature.

Over the next few pages we will look at each feature in turn.

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Careful capturing of source files in the first place will make the stitching process ...

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