Photomerge Scene Cleaner

Elements began by offering Photomerge Panorama on its own, but within a few versions, the designers came up with a number of other useful applications for Photomerge technology, including the ability to remove random people and objects to "clean up" a scene with ease.

Busy or clean? Scene Cleaner is an efficient, automated copy-and-paste feature designed to clean up heavily populated and cluttered scenes with the least amount of hassle. Important note: This only works if you take multiple images (two or more) of the same scene preferably without moving the camera.

Step one is to open all the images shot on location (there are four here) and open Photomerge Scene Cleaner from the Guided menu. Note that Scene Cleaner has its own separate panel showing one image on the left and an empty space on the right. Choose the least cluttered image from the thumbnails at the base of the screen and click-drag it up into the right...