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Monday 4 July 2011

How I make use of Photo Fuse in Windows Live Photo Gallery.

During our recent day out in York I wanted to take a photo of a very attractive building, but there were so many people walking in front of this particular building, I simply couldn’t get a clear shot of it. The answer is to take quite a few shots from exactly the same spot so that you can ‘fix’ it and remove all of the people using Photo Fuse in Windows Live Photo Gallery. Of course, the original intention of Photo Fuse was to arrive at a perfect ‘Group’ shot of people, but I find Photo Fuse far more useful when I wish to take a shot of something and I can’t get a clear shot without including people walking past. Here is my step by step ‘how-to’ showing you just how to remove any unwanted portion of your photos and arrive at your perfect shot.

1. Firstly take as many shots as you can of your intended subject, the more the merrier, and make sure each shot is taken from the same spot. (see my photos of the building below.)

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Notice that in each of my shots there are different people walking by in front of the building.  By using the  Photo Fuse feature in Windows Live Photo Gallery, I’m going to remove them all so that I eventually end up with my desired photo of just the building.

Create then Photo Fuse

2. After importing the photos into Windows Live Photo Gallery, highlight the photos that you intend to fix using Photo Fuse, and then click on Create in the ribbon interface and  then choose Photo Fuse.

reading your photos

3. Wait a few moments whilst Photo Fuse aligns your chosen photos to Fuse.

Photo fuse begins

4. Next, your photo shot will be shown in the Photo Fuse window, and inside the photo will be a square of dots that you can move around the photo. At the right hand side of the square, you will see a small window containing a scrollable collection of the same area from each of your photos in question, in my case four. You are asked which one of these you like best. As I need to get rid of all the people in front of the building, I will need to choose from the selection, the one with no one present.

Getting rid of those people!

5. Now move the square of dots around your photo by clicking on it and holding down the left hand mouse button. I need to move mine over the first set of people in the picture. You can enlarge the square by clicking on each dot and dragging it sideways by holding down the mouse button until the dotted square surrounds the area you wish to change. I shall make my square cover the two people holding hands.

6. Now all I need to do is choose one of the corresponding areas from the ‘Which do you like best?’ pane, so I need to choose the one with no person in it. Click on your choice from the pane to select it.

Now the're gone

Like magic the couple holding hands have disappeared! Next I need to move onto the couple with the blue t-shirt on.

Now you see them

7. Continue in the same way with all areas of your photo that you wish to change. Simply move your dotted square over the area in question, making sure it covers the entire area that you wish to change, select one of the other views of that area, click on it to select it and your photo will change to your choice.

Last one's

In this how-to, I only have the far set of people to eradicate now. So I’ll place my square over them, making sure it covers them completely, choose the version from my other shots from the sidebar window that contains no person at all and voila! I now have my perfect shot!

Now everyone is gone

TG (Isn’t technology marvellous?)

6 comments:

  1. Thank you Beth for your comments and I do hope you find this post and how-to useful.

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  2. Wow that is great :):) I just wait until there is no-one around lol but will remember this if I ever need it, thank you :) x

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  3. Looks great and reminds me of my time in York that building was there but I think it was something else
    Much love
    Lo xxxx

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  4. Wonderful tip! I didn't know this option existed for me as I dabble in photography and am not particularly technical in my approach to things computerized. I just want things to work. I hope I get to use this function. It looks like fun.

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  5. Glad I can be of help BostonBoy! I have used this method quite a few times when taking a shot of a statue or a building where its busy

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