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Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

10/10/2004 05:18:08 PM · #1

Is there anyway to get this photo(cut body from a different photo)
//img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/gi_joe05/Martha.jpg
to this background(photobucket is dumb)
//img.photobucket.com/albums/v142/gi_joe05/DSCF4245.jpg
and make it look good?
I have tried but I can't get it to look that great

atsxus

Canon EOS-10D

10/10/2004 05:35:53 PM · #2

Originally posted by gi_joe05:

Hope you don't mind - I took the liberty of working on it. Edited Martha to be the same height as the tree. Rotated the tree. selected everything except the background and moved her on over to the other picture. touch up on some white from the background that moved over. Merged layers.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

10/10/2004 07:10:31 PM · #3

no, no problem at all
Just as long as you told me how you did it so I can do it to!

bobdaveant

Canon EOS-60D

10/10/2004 08:26:07 PM · #4

I tried my hand at editing it too, let me know what you think...hope you dont mind.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

10/10/2004 10:22:23 PM · #5

ohh I love it! how did you do it?

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

10/10/2004 10:48:04 PM · #6

Here's a quickie-

Starting with Martha, select Color Range in Photoshop (choose the white area, fuzziness 44), then invert to select the girl. Now copy and paste that selection onto the [rotated] trees and scale it down to size. Choose "Matting>Defringe (1 pixel)" once or twice to get rid of the white border. Use the eraser tool at 30% opacity to touch up the hair and other details.

Select the background trees layer and Gaussian Blur it about 1.5 pixels. Use the HSL filter to adjust the color of the trees to match the girl better. Took me about 8 minutes.

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

10/10/2004 10:48:33 PM · #7

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

10/10/2004 11:00:51 PM · #8

I did this and made the background a sepia tone and used the "aged newspaper" filter in photoshop 9...it turned out well
thanks for all the help

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

10/10/2004 11:24:02 PM · #9

Hey, you gave me a 10 in the Parts challenge... it was least I could do. ;-)