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The Geometric Distortion setting - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
The Geometric Distortion setting
I've saved the results of the last three exercises, for what its worth, as The masked capitol.psd. Now, let's switch over to an alignment puzzle that presents a little more of a challenge. It's called Boys on tube.psd and this is that classic group shot, by the way, and by that I mean this. Whenever you're taking a photograph that involves more than one person, you should take more than one photograph. Now really, you should be taking multiple exposures of single person shots as well if you want to get a halfway decent result. But when you're shooting let's say a group of six coworkers or six family members or six anythings for that matter, then you should be taking at least six shots, and that way, you can pick and choose the best shots of each one of the people, align those shots together, and then mask the people into place. Now, the reason this one presents a little more of a challenge what I'm about to show you here is that I was not stationary. So if you can remain stationary…
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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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