I went to the Photographer's Gallery in London with my wife today. I had not been to the new site before. I loved the view from the 5th floor. However, I realised when trying to shoot it that it had a very high contrast ratio. Intitually I shot in JPEG but then realised that this was a shot for RAW. I shot over and under exposed images hoping to combine them in photoshop. I've used photomerge panorama before and its amazed me in its abilities to automatically line up the shots. Photomerge exposure did not work nearly so well, in fact I got better results using only one image in iPhoto
I just got Elements for Christmas, so I haven't tried merging photos together yet. I did get the Photoshop Elements for Dummies Book to go with it, so I'll try to look that up and see what it says.
I use Photoshop rather than Photoshop Elements so if some of this doesn't apply then apologies in advance:
Bring in the separate shots as layers, then select all the layers and do Edit > Auto-Align layers. If Elements doesn't have that another way is to blend the layers using the Difference blend mode and that will help you line them up manually. Once lined up, from there it will be a matter of masking and blending.
Hope that helps...
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Bring in the separate shots as layers, then select all the layers and do Edit > Auto-Align layers. If Elements doesn't have that another way is to blend the layers using the Difference blend mode and that will help you line them up manually. Once lined up, from there it will be a matter of masking and blending.
Hope that helps...