Dealing with frustrating computer issues this morning so I almost forgot to post.
(this might show up twice, by the way)

No photo today. Instead I’m going to show a very cool feature of Photoshop Elements 8.
It’s called “Recompose”. It’s like Content/Aware/Scale in Photoshop but much easier to use.

Here’s a photo I shot in 2003 on a foggy morning in Morro Bay, California.
Note the woman in front of the horse. Not only does she stand out because she’s wearing
very light clothing but she is also converging with the horse’s head which is a no, no.

All I need to do is use the recompose brush to paint areas I don’t want.

Then I drag the edges of the image in until she disappears.

It needs a bit of clean-up but otherwise a great job. If I had taken more time to paint
her out (smaller brush around horse’s nose, for instance), it might have been perfect!

Recompose isn’t perfect. A busy background or uneven horizon is tough for it to resolve.
But all in all, it can save time when you need to removed something. Tip: always work on a copy.