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The Auto-Blend Layers command - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
The Auto-Blend Layers command
I've saved my changes as Non-aligned automobiles.psd so called because the cars are the only things that aren't aligned in some of this composition. I've also renamed the layer so I've got white minivan on top, and then on the bottom here, I have blue hatchback, based on what little information I have about this car. All right, I'll go ahead and turn the top layer on. Now, our next step is to blend these two images together to get rid of the cars and we can do that one of two ways, once again. We could manually blend these two images together or we could have Photoshop do it for us. Well, in this case the manual route is going to be the better route. However might as well give the automated command a chance. So I'll click on white minivan, Shift+Click on blue hatchback to select both of the images. Then I'll go up to the Edit menu and I'll choose Auto-Blend layers. Now, this isn't really the purpose of this command but as I say it's worth a shot and it gives us the first glimpse into…
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Artificial intelligence that works1m 22s
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The Auto-Align Layers command7m 25s
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The Auto-Blend Layers command3m 54s
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Masking auto-aligned layers4m 50s
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The Geometric Distortion setting6m 44s
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The Seamless Tones and Colors checkbox4m 8s
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Creating the best possible layer mask9m 18s
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Auto-blending depths of field5m 54s
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Finessing masks, accepting imperfections6m 29s
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Shooting and downsampling panorama images5m 54s
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Introducing the Photomerge command6m 40s
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Evaluating the Layout settings6m 47s
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Loading, aligning, and blending with Photomerge5m 36s
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Tracing and extracting seams7m 18s
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Adding a masked element into a panorama5m 55s
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Simplifying and correcting a panorama5m 58s
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Smart Filters and nondestructive cropping6m 43s
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