Select and move problem

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Fred Partridge
Mar 28, 2005
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I am working with PhotoShop 4, and I want to add another person into a group photo. I selected him from another photo last night, moved the selection across and it looked promising. However he was sitting of top of everyone else. I think I know how to correct that, but it was late so, I saved the selection to work on it today. When I loaded the selection, and now moved it, all I had was the outline filled with white, no detail at all. Can anyone advise me how to bring back the detail, please. Also when I do get an image of him into the original picture, I will need to crop the top of his head to show him at somewhere near his comparative height. Is there a way to extend the height of the original photo so I can get him whole ? Thanks in advance for any help.
Fred
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Tacit
Mar 28, 2005
In article <d28ttj$t24$>,
"Fred Partridge" wrote:

I am working with PhotoShop 4, and I want to add another person into a group photo. I selected him from another photo last night, moved the selection across and it looked promising. However he was sitting of top of everyone else. I think I know how to correct that, but it was late so, I saved the selection to work on it today. When I loaded the selection, and now moved it, all I had was the outline filled with white, no detail at all. Can anyone advise me how to bring back the detail, please.

When you moved the new person over, he was in a layer on his own, and could be moved freely.

However, when you saved the file, what format did you save it in? If you did not save the image in a format that allows layers, such as Photoshop format–for example, if you saved a JPEG–the layers were flattened. Once the layers are flattened, you absolutely can not move him independently any more–what was beneath him is lost forever, and nothing can bring it back. You have to start over from scratch.

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Odysseus
Mar 28, 2005
In article <d28ttj$t24$>,
"Fred Partridge" wrote:

I am working with PhotoShop 4, and I want to add another person into a group photo. I selected him from another photo last night, moved the selection across and it looked promising. However he was sitting of top of everyone else. I think I know how to correct that, but it was late so, I saved the selection to work on it today. When I loaded the selection, and now moved it, all I had was the outline filled with white, no detail at all. Can anyone advise me how to bring back the detail, please. Also when I do get an image of him into the original picture, I will need to crop the top of his head to show him at somewhere near his comparative height. Is there a way to extend the height of the original photo so I can get him whole ? Thanks in advance for any help.

When you Save Selection you’re not saving the content of the ‘marching ants’, just the shape (including grey levels for opacity) of the region selected, in other words a mask instead of the image it contains. If the extra person wasn’t on a separate layer, and the file saved in Photoshop format, you’ll have to start over.

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Odysseus
Mar 28, 2005
In article <d28ttj$t24$>,
"Fred Partridge" wrote:

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Is there a way to
extend the height of the original photo so I can get him whole ? Thanks in advance for any help.

Sorry, I neglected this last question. You can use Canvas Size to extend the height of your working area, but it’ll start out blank. To gain only in that direction, click the bottom-centre part of the ‘tic-tac-toe’ grid. There are various ways to fill in the background, including painting (cloning) with the rubber stamp, stretching (scaling) the existing background, or superimposing a flopped copy of it.

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