"Postman Delivers" <JR_the_postman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>I have a photo, where one of the individuals has their eyes closed (photo
> A),
>
> have another photo taken several seconds later where that individual has
> their eyes open, but someone else has made a face (photo B).
>
> I want to erase the face on photo A, leaving the hair and chin/neck...
> How
> do I erase this to have a transparency, then open another photo, and
lasso
> the face (Photo B),
>
> Dragging the face from (photo B) and then move it behind the original
> picture (photo A)
>
> For one reason I can not fathom how to accomplish this feat... Might
there
> be an on-line tutorial for this so I can have some visual feed back?
>
> Similarly I would also like to cut out letters lower ****tion of this
> photo,
> and move a busy pattered style imaged to the backside that would appear
> have fancy lettering showing through the transparency...
>
> Or use three layers, background, a film frame and place a thumbnail on
top
> of the background, underneath the frame and crop the excess of the photo
> from around the film frame...
>
> JR the postman
I'm no expert but for the first part of your problem, it'll take a little
trial and error to make it all perfect as things like closing ones eyes
cause different wrinkles in the nose and around the mouth. So I like your
idea of leaving the hair and chin and inserting the center of the face
from
the other pic. So in the eyes closed pic add a transparent layer and make
it active. Go to the eyes open picture and zoom in to 400% or so and make
a
selection using hard edges using the lasso going right up to the edge of
the
hair (so we can use the skin tones to blend the layers), copy and go back
to
eyes closed picture and paste it into the transparent layer with normal
mode
but opacity low, try 40%. Now is the hard part. You have to manipulate
just the overlay layer. First try to get the color right. Next move it
around to align it, I'd try to use the chin and eyebrows as the anchor
points. Now you'll probably have to skew it and rotate it a little etc
until it lines up as you can best get it. Once its good, increase the
opacity to 100% and play with feathering the edges of the selection. If
its
still not quite right, add another transparent layer and paint away the
pimples :)
If it looks bad, just do it again! Maybe try to just transfer the eyes
(spooooky)
Lyle
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