Photomerge Scene Cleaner

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

Busy or clean? The 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. But it only works if you take multiple images of the same scene at the same time.

Step one is to open all the images shot on location and open Photomerge Scene Cleaner from the Guided menu. Scene Cleaner has its own separate panel showing one image on the left and an empty space on the right. Choose the best image from the thumbnails along the base of the screen and click-drag it to the left-hand window. This becomes your "base" image. In fact, as with all the features...