Now you see them, now you don't...

Sometimes you turn up to a location only to find there are too many people in your pictures. Photoshop Elements has a very neat feature called Scene Cleaner. First you MUST shoot several pictures of the same scene, leaving a few seconds, or even minutes, between each snap to ensure the people in 'picture A' have moved to a different position in 'picture B' and so on. Clearly a tripod would help but in this example I leaned against the handrail to steady myself while I shot 8 different frames.

Elements has a very effective auto lineup function so, even if you move a bit between pictures, it aligns them very accurately. And if this does not work, you can use its inbuilt Alignment tool to make it even more accurate. To clean a scene, all that's needed is to run the Photomerge Scene Cleaner, select a base image, then use a pen tool to extract empty spaces in one image which are then copied and pasted into the base image to cover up the people. If one person just stands in front of your camera during all your sequential shots, they cannot be removed - but if they move about the scene in different frames, they can be, as you see in this final frame.
(Enyoji temple, Mt Shosa, Himeji, Japan, one of the locations for the film 'The Last Samurai'.)