Photomerge exposure final is blurry

I've taken some photos bracketing from -1 to +1 (hold the shutter and it takes 3 photos) when I use photomerge exposure the final photo is blurry. Any ideas?

Thanks,
That worked.
Silkrooster <[email protected]> wrote:
You may get better results by posting your issue in the photoshop elements forum instead of here.
With that said, When you open the raw image zoom in and verify that the image is sharp, do the same for each additional image for the merge.
I am assuming the merge will create three or how ever many layers (one for each image you selected) , There should be an eyeball or similar icon for each layer to hide the layers from view.
leave only two layers visible, then on one of the layers change the blend mode to difference, (should be top layer) If the two layers are correctly lined up you should see a black image. If they are not lined up you should see a weird color outline of the image. Moving the image until you get a pure black image will mean they are lined up. Change the top layer back to normal blend, hide it then do the next two layers, etc until you are done.
If anything moved while you shot your pictures that will show up as a difference, if everything else exept that portion of the image is black then your image is aligned.
I hope that makes sense. Whether you can do all the above or not, I don't know since I do not have elements.
Good luck
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Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 08:43:31 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Problem with photomerge exposure
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