Adding a Person
Summary:
A great technique for taking a person from one photograph and adding them to another photograph. This is useful for adding people to completely different scenes.
Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open both the photo that has the person (Person Photo) and the photo that has the scene (Scene Photo) in Photoshop.
2. The first thing we need to do is remove the person from the "Person Photo", so that we can copy and paste them into the other "Scene Photo".
3. Go into Quick Mask mode.
4. Use an appropriate sized brush size, select "Black" from the Swatch palette, then begin painting the person. When you are in Quick Mask mode, the brush will paint a transparent red. Paint over every part of the person.
5. If needed, you can select smaller Brush sizes to get in corners and the finely tuned areas, such as small hairs.
6. When you are finished, click Edit in Standard Mode button.
7. Goto Select > Inverse. You should now have a selection of just the person.
8. Click Ctrl+C to copy the selected person.
9. Open the "Scene Photo", then click CTRL+V to paste the person onto the scene.
10. Click CTRL+T to go into Free Transform mode. You should now see shape handles around the person. Use these shape handles to shrink the person to fit proportionately to size within the new scene.
11. Goto Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Adjust the Saturation level to match the background. (If needed, you can also apply steps 11 and 12 to the background scene, so that both the person and the scene blend perfectly.)
12. Congratulations! You should now have your new photo of a person within the new background scene.
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