Matching Photo Styles

Now that I’ve given you some special effects you can apply to your images, I’ll show you a feature in Elements that lets you match the style of one photo to another. For example, let’s say you see a photo that has a really cool color treatment. Well, you can use the Photomerge Style Match feature to take the “look” from that photo and apply it to your own. Here’s how it works:

Step One:

Open the photo you’d like to add an effect to, then click on Guided at the top of the Edit tab and scroll down to the Photomerge palette. Go ahead and click on Style Match to begin.

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Step Two:

The next screen is fairly consistent with the other Photomerge features in Elements. On the left you pick a source image, and on the right is your final image. In this case, we need to choose the image that we want to style our photo (the photo on the right) after. Elements comes with a few style images already, and you’ll find them in the Style Bin at the bottom of the window.