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I’ve seen this in movies where there are pictures hung up on a wall and a
person edited it to make it look like it was a picture of him and an unlikely person such as JFK or some other famous person. How do you do this step by step? I am a beginner at this Photoshop stuff. I am using Photoshop
7.0 Thanks!
David,
It’s not easy. It all depends on the photo itself. One of the ways of doing it is by using the lasso tool and going around the whole person, copy, go to the other photo, paste, hit Ctrl+T, click from the right key of the mouse, hit scale, and make it the right size as you press Shift (to get the object keep the right dimensions), . Then hit Enter… This is about it, except I forgot to tell you that after you’re done with the lasso tool, got to "Selec", choose "Feather" and make it approx. 2… This is only possible if the object can be cirsumscribed entirely.
Another way is by choosing "Filter", "Extract" (But if I remember correctly, for Photoshop 7, it is Windows, Extract). A new window will appear with the photo and object you want to extract in it. You should go to help and look for extract. The whole object of the exercise is to "paint" with a brush around the object and fill this object with a colour. You can check the results and accept the it. Then you proceed as above.
Another way of doing it (not easy) is by cloning with the cloning tool… You open both photos and set them side by side and clone…
Yet another way is with a mask…. look for this in Help
Sorry to be so vague, but you’ll appreciate this is a tall order.
Take care,
Marcel