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The Auto-Align Layers command

The Auto-Align Layers command - Photoshop Tutorial

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The Auto-Align Layers command

In this chapter, we are going to be covering three commands; two of them are located under the Edit menu. The first, Auto-Align, layer takes multiple shots of the same scene and geometrically distorts those images so that the stationary elements align with each other. That way you can mask out any moving elements or you could mask together people in the same scene. I'll show you a couple of examples. It's an extraordinary command quite frankly. Auto-Blend layers is perhaps even more magical. What it does is once you get done aligning your layers then this command will automatically adjust the exposure of all the images. So that the brightness and contrast and colors match each other and then it goes in there and automatically masks the images together. It's an extraordinarily intelligent command, not a command you'll use very often, but a technological wonder. Then we have a command that's essentially a combination of the two. Under the File menu, you go to Automate and then you go…

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