Building A Chop – Theo Things A Dueth 1

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.

Building A Chop – Pots and Pans

We will use our image (pan.psd – with the path and layers saved from the previous tutorial) and combine it with another to create a chop. We will use ramiele.jpg (below).

PREPARATION.
Open pan.psd and ramiele.jpg side by side

Make sure the Layers Palette is also open and it shows the layers we created in the previous tutorial.

Grab Layer 1 from pan.jpg towards ramiele.jpg. This will copy our clipped layer over ramiele’s image (shown below).

RESIZE AND REPOSITION.
We will resize and position our new layer. Set Layer 1’s opacity to 70%.

(Win- CTRL; Mac-CMD)

Press CTRL-T. This will enable us to transform our layer.

1. Hold the SHIFT key while dragging the lower right of the transform box to resize the image proportionally.

2. Placing the mouse in between the transform anchor points will enable us to rotate the image. Rotate the pan about 180 degrees – to turn it upside down.

Note: The above instructions are interchangeable. You can start with the rotate if you wish.

Rotate and transform the pan layer so we will have something similar to the image shown below.

Once we’re satisfied at the size and angle of our pan, hit the enter key to complete the transform.

FINISHING OUR CHOP.
Zoom close into Ramiele’s face (CTRL-SPACE-drag mouse).

Select the Background layer. Then select the Pen Tool (press P).

We will make a copy of Ramiele’s face to cover the part of the pan that is behind her head by drawing a path. Example shown below.

Go to the Path Palette and make our path into a selection (CTRL-click on path). Press CTRL-J to copy our selection into a new layer.

1. Pan layer (Layer 1).

2. Copied layer from Background from our path selection (Layer 2).

Drag Layer 2 above Layer 1.

You’ll wind up with the image and layer order below.

Go to Layer 1 and set the Opacity back to 100%.

Then Select the Burn Tool (Press O) with the following option settings:

Brush: Around 40 px size; Hardness: 0%
Range: Midtones; Exposure: 50%

1. Select Layer 2 and;

2. run the brush a couple of times over her forehead to simulate shadows created by the pan over her head.

Our finished image below – Pots and Pans Blitches!

Basic Face Transplant

Here’s a fairly quick and basic way to put somebody’s face on somebody else’s body without using many of the advance tools. We will mainly use the Lasso (L) and the Eraser (E) tools.

Pictures we will use:

Phuong.jpg

TayTay.jpg

Open both images.

1. Select the Lasso Tool (press L). Use the lasso to roughly select Phuong’s face.

2. Drag the selection to the other document. Press/hold CTRL then drag selection to taytay.jpg. (Macs: Press/hold CMD then drag selection). You will now have a new layer on our taytay.jpg.

3. Resizing and repositioning the layer. With our new layer selected, press CTRL+T. This will now allow us to free transform our layer (rotate, resize and distort).

TIP: To better position and resize the face, I would lower the opacity of the layer (about 66%) first so I can better match the new features with the original.

4. Once I’ve positioned and resized the face I select the Eraser (press E).

For the edge to blend well I use a larger brush size and set the hardness to 0%. In this example a 45px and above works well. Choosing a brush size larger than necessary gives us a smoother fade on the edges. You may choose a smaller eraser to fine tune edges.

5. Start erasing the edges away. I usually position the edge of the eraser to the edge of the image and slowly work my way in making sure the edges blends well with the original.

You’ll wind up with this… Both layers on (left) and new layer shown only (right)