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Help with merging photos?

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  • 23-03-2005 12:39am
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    JimiMac
    Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭


    Can anyone please give some tips or recommend a tutorial link for the following...
    I want to take seperate pictures of my daughters and merge them so that it looks like they are standing next to each other wearing the same hat (only one hat available).
    I haven't done any of this stuff before. I just have a trial version of PE3.

    I have tried cut and paste but you can notice the slight differences in background.
    I tried messing around with layers but didn't really have a clue and got bogged down.
    Ta.

    Or is there a simple (free) program that specialises in that sort of thing?


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    sionnach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭sionnach


    doing this properly requires quite a bit of skill and experience with proper image editing programs. Your best bet would be to ask someone to do it for you imo unless you're prepared to spend a lot of time learning how to use a good image editor (what's PE3 btw?)


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    JimiMac
    Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭JimiMac


    Hi Sionnach,
    I won't have the time to delve too deeply. Whilst I get the impression 'layers' is the way to go I'd say the learning curve is a bit steep?
    I'll probably just cut'n'paste but I thought someone might know a few helpful tweaks.
    PE3 = photoshop elements


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    sionnach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭sionnach


    a simple cut and paste would probably be very obvious to any one looking at the photo, you'd need to blend the edges of the cut photo into the background you're imposing it onto and getting things like strands of hair to look right takes quite a bit of patience and skill. I'm unfamiliar with photoshop elements so i don't know i its capable of doing the stuff i'd normally to to pictures that i photoshop. You should definitely use layers, they're very handy once you get used to them.

    basically you can make a decent attempt at this with the lasso tool and copying and pasting and a bit of time with the eraser tool, but to get it done to perfection you'd need to use options like masks, multiply, hue/saturation changing etc etc.


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    Citizen_Erased
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Citizen_Erased


    There is a tutorial for this on www.good-tutorials.com
    it may a bit to hard though , it is on there somewhere though and could be hard to find...


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