ChrisAnn
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Post by ChrisAnn on Feb 14, 2017 8:13:33 GMT
You never know Janice, she may well ask for the faces to be in oblongs when she's tried the ovals. Now that I know what to do that will be no big deal as far as I'm concerned. Thanks for your help.
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Post by cats4jan on Feb 14, 2017 8:53:41 GMT
If I were her, I'd probably cut the ovals out with a white rectangle around them so I could use my paper cutter. Then I'd put them on colored paper to give it a frame look. I don't have the patience to cut out those ovals. But, then again, that is why I don't paper scrap. LOL.
You are so right. Once you learn to make a template, clipping the photos to a different shape would be easy.
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ChrisAnn
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Post by ChrisAnn on Feb 16, 2017 16:43:18 GMT
Update on my 'ovals' project. It appears that what was really wanted was an enlargement of several very old photos so that the faces in the photos were 14mm - not the extraction of the faces. Fortunately, because of Sepiana pointing out the benefit of smart objects, I simply enlarged the scanned photos and had them printed out. She is thrilled with the result. It may not have been necessary but working on the ovals widened my experience with PSE and that's all good. Many thanks folks.  |
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Post by Sepiana on Feb 16, 2017 19:05:59 GMT
Update on my 'ovals' project. It appears that what was really wanted was an enlargement of several very old photos so that the faces in the photos were 14mm - not the extraction of the faces. Fortunately, because of Sepiana pointing out the benefit of smart objects, I simply enlarged the scanned photos and had them printed out. She is thrilled with the result. ChrisAnn, thanks for the update! Glad to hear that. Smart Objects to the rescue!!! If you had created a larger oval template to clip the photo to it and, then, enlarged the photo by more than 100% to fit the template, your photo would have gone "all pixely on you" (to quote Barbara Brundage in The Missing Manual).
I am just adding some information about shapes/templates/clipping masks for the benefit of anyone wanting to try this technique.
When you clip a photo to a shape, Elements does NOT "cut" your photo to fit it to the shape (in this case, an oval template). A clipping mask uses the contents and transparency of the layer below to determine which parts of the layer above are to remain visible and which parts are to be hidden. No pixels are discarded; they are just hidden under the clipping mask. This explains why you can move/reposition/resize the photo inside the clipping mask and . . . that's why Adobe calls it a "mask".
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