Taking certain parts of one photo & replacing sections of it into another photo.

[Acker]

Photoshop Elements 6 xp os.
I have been asked by one of my clients if I would consider shooting some interior photos for some of their brochures & website. If you have ever shot interior photos then you know what happens when it is bright outside and darker inside...your get burnt out windows aka white wash windows. This is not an issue if you take two identical pictures with different exposures. When I under expose the room I get beautiful pictures of the outdoors through the windows however, I have absolutely no idea how to remove the burnt out windows in one photo & replace them with the good windows from the other photo. I am a new photoshop user, still in the infant stage so I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thank you in advance.

[Andrei Doubrovski]

Hi Acker,
I'm afraid, Elements is a bit too "amateurish" for this purpose.

However, try the following:
- Open the both images (in the "Editor" mode)
- Choose "good outdoors" picture
- Press [Ctrl+A] to select all
- Press [Ctrl+C] to copy the selected area
- Go to "good interior" image
- Press [Ctrl+V] to paste the copied image (it appears in the document as a new layer)
- Select the "good outdoors" areas with the Polygonal Lasso tool
- Press [Alt+Ctrl+D] and feather the selection by 5-10 px (this softens the selection edges)
- Press [Shift+Ctrl+I] to invert the selection (this selects "bad interior" areas)
- Press [Delete] key

Regards