How can I blend one part of an image into another?
Hi,
A Photoshop project I'm looking to take on involves taking a picture of a friend's face and putting it in place under Darth Vader's helmet. I've done this before with some success but I would like to know if there are more advanced techniques that can make the work look more genuine.
Here are the steps I usually take:
1. Move my friend's face into the Darth Vader picture as a new layer.
2. Enable quick mask and remove the unnecessary parts of the portrait that I'm importing via a somewhat softened brush tool.
3. Use free transform to slightly adjust the face to fit in over Darth Vader's and setting the opacity to a smaller value so I can best try to align the eyes, nose, etc.
4. Set the opacity afterwards to around 85% to allow somewhat of a blending.
Are there more things I can do? I would like to know if there's a way to better match the colors or lighting as that would sell the editing a lot better.
Anyways here's a recent example that I finished where I followed the same basic formula:
Original Image 1: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/167886_439868867254_692577254_4792731_6399414_n.jpg
Original Image 2: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F9%2F9b%2FNinja_Gaiden_%2528NES%2529.jpg&h=0AQGO3WPZ
Combined Images (the character's eyes): http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi76.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj30%2Forielonline%2Feli-gaiden.jpg&h=6AQGDqhet
A Photoshop project I'm looking to take on involves taking a picture of a friend's face and putting it in place under Darth Vader's helmet. I've done this before with some success but I would like to know if there are more advanced techniques that can make the work look more genuine.
Here are the steps I usually take:
1. Move my friend's face into the Darth Vader picture as a new layer.
2. Enable quick mask and remove the unnecessary parts of the portrait that I'm importing via a somewhat softened brush tool.
3. Use free transform to slightly adjust the face to fit in over Darth Vader's and setting the opacity to a smaller value so I can best try to align the eyes, nose, etc.
4. Set the opacity afterwards to around 85% to allow somewhat of a blending.
Are there more things I can do? I would like to know if there's a way to better match the colors or lighting as that would sell the editing a lot better.
Anyways here's a recent example that I finished where I followed the same basic formula:
Original Image 1: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/167886_439868867254_692577254_4792731_6399414_n.jpg
Original Image 2: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F9%2F9b%2FNinja_Gaiden_%2528NES%2529.jpg&h=0AQGO3WPZ
Combined Images (the character's eyes): http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi76.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj30%2Forielonline%2Feli-gaiden.jpg&h=6AQGDqhet
Bovski
first of you should think of using warping(morphing) software to adjust the image to the correct placements it will give much more accurate results than transform(3) then you can fix it up in photoshop
ASKER
Can you recommend any software in particular?
I still use Elastic Reality on Windows 98.
Though some just don't cut it most of them have demo's you can try before you buy.
MorphMan By STOIC http://www.stoik.com/products/video/STOIK-MorphMan/
is probably one of the best
http://www.effectmatrix.com/morphing/index.htm
http://www.fantamorph.com/index.html
Essentially what you need to do is setup a warp between the original image and the new image and save the last frame.
Though some just don't cut it most of them have demo's you can try before you buy.
MorphMan By STOIC http://www.stoik.com/products/video/STOIK-MorphMan/
is probably one of the best
http://www.effectmatrix.com/morphing/index.htm
http://www.fantamorph.com/index.html
Essentially what you need to do is setup a warp between the original image and the new image and save the last frame.
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