This tutorial shows how to combine two images into one. Plus it’s a great practice of all the different techniques we’ve learned so far. Below are the images we will use.
Syesha.jpg
Theo.jpg
Open both images in Photoshop. Press V to select the Move Tool.
(Win: CTRL / Mac: CMD)
Drag Theo into Syesha. Zoom out and resize Theo by pressing CTRL-T. Drag the upper right anchor point while holding the SHIFT key to reduce proportianlly.
Watch carefully and stop when you think he and Syesha are proportional.
At this point you will notice that if we move Theo to the left edge there isn’t enough room to show him. So we will make the canvas bigger using the CROP tool.
First, move the resized Theo in the middle of the document. Select the CROP Tool (Press C).
Drag the tool along the whole document then drag the left anchor point more to the left as shown below.
Hit the ENTER/RETURN key to crop the image bigger.
Reposition Theo by aligning the top of his piano to the top of Syesha’s piano (below).
Zoom (CTRL-SPACE-Drag the mouse) into Theo and put a path around him with the Pen Tool (Press P).
Since the background is dark we don’t have to be so exact on the clipping path.
Make the path into a selection (check previous tutorials).
Invert the selection by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-I. Press delete to remove the background on Theo. Press CTRL-D to deselect.
Select the Marquee Tool (Press M) and dragging the mouse from the upper right of our document, make a selection as shown below.
Then go to the Background layer and copy the selection to a new layer (CTRL-J).
Go to EDIT>TRANSFORM>FLIP HORIZONTAL to flip the layer. Move it all the way to the left until the left edge of the layer snaps to the left edge of the document.
At this point let’s see what we need to fix:
1. The pianos have different colors. We need to make a smooth transition in the obvious seam.
2. Same with the background as number 1.
3. We need to get rid of the person (duplicated) in this background.
4. Theo doesn’t have enough image – he’s cut off at the waist.
To Be Continued…
You can try and figure out how to fix all four points. Answers will be in the next blog post.
