![]() You could inverse the selection and then delete the area outside it, but that’d be mighty reckless. Hide the area outside the selection with a layer mask. To see a preview of the feathering before you commit to it, use the Refine Edge command in both Elements (left) and Pixelmator (right). In Elements, choose Selection from the menu at the bottom of the dialog box, and then click OK in both apps. In the resulting dialog box, drag the Feather slider rightward until the feather preview looks good to you. In Photoshop, just hang tight-we’ll feather the mask (instead of the selection) in a minute. In Pixelmator, choose Edit > Refine Selection. ![]() In Elements, click Refine Edge in the Options bar at the bottom of the workspace. When you’ve got the selection just right, release the Option key and your mouse button. To reposition the oval selection while you’re drawing it (meaning you haven’t let go of your mouse button yet), press and hold the spacebar and drag with your mouse. Try not to get the selection too close to the image’s edges. Bottom: Once you grab the tool, drag to draw a selection atop your image, like the one shown here. Top: The Elliptical Marquee tool for each app is circled here in Photoshop, Elements, and Pixelmator (respectively). Press and hold the Option key, and then drag to draw an oval-shaped selection from the inside out. Peek at your Layers panel to make sure the correct image layer is active (the girls), and then-in the main document window-position your cursor near the center of the image. Create an oval selectionįrom the Tools panel, grab the Elliptical Marquee tool. Here you can see the Layers panel in Photoshop, Elements, and Pixelmator (respectively), with each image of the collage on separate layers. Make sure the new layer lives at the top of the layer stack (just drag it to the top if necessary). When you do, the image lands on its very own layer. Press Command-C to copy it to your Mac’s memory and then activate the other document and press Command-V to paste the copied image. ![]() Activate the document that contains the soon-to-vignetted photo and then press Command-A to select it. In any of the three apps, open two images (in Elements, make sure you’re in Expert or Full Edit mode). To get started, you’ll need to open two images and combine them into the same document. (Sorry, you can’t do this workflow in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom or Apple’s Photos, iPhoto, or Aperture.) This technique is perhaps the easiest-and most romantic-way to combine two images into a new and unique piece of art. In this column, you’ll learn to create the ever-popular, oh-so-romantic, soft oval vignette collage in Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Pixelmator. The app is available through Apple’s Mac App Store, and a trial that requires OS X 10.6 or later is available at of the many superpowers of image editing apps that support layers is the ability to combine images into a collage. Pixelmator 2.0 is now amongst us and still available at its “introductory” price of $29.99, a full 50 percent off its regular price of $59.99. Pixelmator 2.0 also supports Lion’s Versions feature to let you revert to previously saved changes, and Auto Save should cut down on the number of times you have to say “whoops.” Finally, Pixelmator is now a good Lion citizen, including the Full Screen feature everyone keeps talking about. There are plenty of other new toys for creatives in Pixelmator 2.0, including Content-Aware Fill technology similar to what’s in Photoshop CS5 retouching tools like sponge, burn, and dodge a new on-canvas info bar for quick access to popular options and some overall polish that tones down Pixelmator’s interface so you can focus on your work. Other additions like the pen, freeform pen, and a new Shape Settings palette for adjusting fill, stroke, and shadows, should round out Pixelmator’s new drawing tools quite nicely. You can now create and combine your own vector shapes or pick from a library of pre-drawn shapes and let your imagination run wild. Headlining the major changes in Pixelmator 2.0 is something customers have been requesting for years: a suite of drawing tools. Pixelmator 2.0 answers some of the company’s most longstanding feature requests with loads of new tools, an updated design, and support for most of Lion’s new perks, including Versions, Auto Save, and Full Screen. The Pixelmator team released a major upgrade on Thursday to its flagship image editor for the Mac.
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