Photoshop Help Please

[saint]

How do I say, take one of my friends body out of a pic and paste it into a new pic but have it look real...to get him to be behind people etc.

I have adobe photoshop but no idea how to do it.

Thanks in advance for any feedback

 

[theGibber1]

im fairly good at Photoshop

you can send it to me if you want..

This is an old photo of my Xs dad at his wedding.. He wanted a photo with his parents..

What you wouldnt know is that his bride, now his X wife was in the picture... Right next to him..
i took her out and moved the dad over.... matched up the curtains and background

 

[theGibber1]

self portrait


Hack of me and Britney Spears...

posted it for April fools day

 

[hogman14]

Tough for an intermediate, and extremely hard for a beginner, Photoshop is an elephant of a program. You need to use the Lasso Tool, and carefully trace around the head, body, whatever it is you want to copy....if you hit control + you will have better luck, as you will be able to focus in better on the pixels. Copy that (control C)

Create a new file (control N), and don't resize what it gives you, as it will be the perf size of the head, body, whatever you cropped. Paste (control v) the image on the new blank sheet.

open the file you want to paste on to, and copy the new file you just created, and paste it onto what you want to paste on to....the tricky part here is the sizing....you are best to resize the "new" file you made....but it's important to do that only after you have seen it pasted, and not before you paste it from the first original picture.

that's the short of it. i have 2 books on it, and buy the photoshop magazine now and again, and i haven't even come close to looking even half professional....

still, hope that helps.

 

[saint]

Thanks guys. I'm decent enough with using the lasso and cutting say 1 person from an image, resizing it, and pasting in a 2nd image. The part I can't do is this: say I want to past an image of a person standing into a second photo of a group of people. But instead of having the person I am pasting being on top of those in the picture...how would i say place him behind those in the picture w/out his body going over theirs? You know what I mean? I want part of the original image to show through the one I paste in some places. Like having his lower half hidden behind those in the pic but his upper torso showing where he is taller, as if he really were standing behind them.
I'm not sure if it's opacity or what I have to deal w/.

Thanks in advance again for your help!

 

[theGibber1]

paste the pic of your buddy and place where you want it... add a layer mask..

paint away at the parts you need hidden using the black paint brush..

if you erase to much or it doesnt look right..

use the white brush to fix it..


hope that came out right..

hogman you know what i mean.. you seem to be able to explain this better than me

 

[theGibber1]

is this what your trying to do???

no i dont have a twin

 

[saint]

Yeah bingo. When i finish eating I will try.

Thanks this has been driving me nuts!

 

[theGibber1]

original

 

[hogman14]

Gibb

You're like 2 years ahead of me....like i said, i only know the basics...i couldn't come close to what you just did there...

 

[saint]

Ok great I just about have it. I did it and made a new layer and pretty much erased out the parts I didn't want on the "top". In any case, the brush size i used at first was too big so I erased too much. I tried to switch the color from black to white (had 2 boxes overlaying each other, one black and one white on control tab. I swapped them). I clicked and dragged over the part I wanted to basically add back and it didn't work...it was still in "eraser" mode.

I know it's probably hard to understand what I mean but your help is really saved a lot of frustration.

 

[theGibber1]

did you add a layer mask?

 

[saint]

yeah. Basically lassoed the one guys body, copied it. Opened main picture, pasted him on it. Added a layer mask, and painted away the parts I wanted to be in the background behind the others. Some I took away too much, but could not "paint it back".

Make sense?

 

[theGibber1]

yeah. Basically lassoed the one guys body, copied it. Opened main picture, pasted him on it. Added a layer mask, and painted away the parts I wanted to be in the background behind the others. Some I took away too much, but could not "paint it back".

Make sense?

no.. if your painting on the layer mask and you switch from black to white it should put back what you erased

 

[saint]

thanks so much for your help...still can't get it to paste back but i will screw around w/ it to get it to work. seriously thanks for your help i tried forever to do this and couldn't!

 

[yyz]

Basically lassoed the one guys body, copied it.

btj will have some fun with this!


:mj07:

 

[theGibber1]

thanks so much for your help...still can't get it to paste back but i will screw around w/ it to get it to work. seriously thanks for your help i tried forever to do this and couldn't!

no problem.. let me know if you have any more questions.. you can get my email from Jack if you want..

You're like 2 years ahead of me....like i said, i only know the basics...i couldn't come close to what you just did there...

keep pluggin away my friend.. Been using the program for 5 years and still dont know half of it..

gl

 

[saint]

This might be a retarded question, but how do i change the color from black to white so i can replace some of the part i dind't want to erase? There was a black box overlying a white box, i hit the arrow to change it so white is overlapping the black box, I figured that was it.