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.

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)