5. Select the Eraser tool ( ). In the options bar, select a brush between 10 and 50 pixels, with
10 % Hardness. Set the Opacity to 90 %.
6. Brush over the eyes, eyebrows, the defining lines of the nose, and the detail in the dress.
You’re erasing part of the blurred layer to let the sharper layer below show through in these
areas.
7. Zoom out so you can see the entire image.
8. Save your work.
9. Choose Layer > Flatten Image to flatten the layers and reduce the image size.
10. Save the image again, and then close it.You’ve taken advantage of features in both Camera Raw and Photoshop to help this bride look
her best. As you’ve seen, you can move between Photoshop and Camera Raw to perform
different tasks as you enhance and improve an image.
About HDR and panoramas in Camera Raw
When you select more than one image in Camera Raw, you can choose Merge to HDR or
Merge to Panorama from the Filmstrip menu. HDR (high dynamic range) requires darker and
lighter exposures of the same composition, while a panorama requires multiple exposures that