Insert head into a group shot Photoshop CS4

emul

I have a group shot from which one person was missing. I since photo'ed them and have extract them from background. I want to insert then into the group shot behind the head of one of the people in the group. Any pointers how? I've googled till blue in the face and cant locate a how too.

Thanks

Eoin

smelltheglove

Its quite easy once you know how. The way I would do it is I would firstly select the heads of the people whom you wish to insert between and duplicate them into a new layer themselves, you'll need feather quite low for this, then paste in the new head you want in there as a new layer.

Your layers should be adjusted in the following order, background, new head, duplicated heads, that way it would be less likely that you will notice the head has just been put in there.

emul

Perfect, worked a treat. Wanna give a novice ps user an idea if I can adjust the colours to match in the different layers. Obviously when take at different times the lighting is slightly different.

Again many thanks, you explained in one paragraph what google had me bewildered about !