Tutorial 2

Is this tutorial we are going to take 4 photos of the same person in a room and merge them into one photo to make it appear that the person is in multiple places in the room at the same time that the photo was taken.

Here are the starting photos.

1 - You don't have to use the images I am using, but if you are the image, I used as the background was the one with the person using the computer. Double click the layer to unlock it so you are able to modify it if you need to.

2 - Next open up all the other pictures you want to include in the document (file--> open--> select photos)

3 – go to each of the photos you just opened and select the whole image by pressing Ctrl – A or Select --> All from the menu then paste into the open document that you are using as the background. You can paste by pressing Ctrl – V or Edit --> Paste from the menu.

4 - Once the images are pasted into the same document as the background image you can arrange the layers any way you want but i suggest you arrange them in a way that they appear to be near to far.

5 – Now select a layer to begin editing. You can hide other layers by clicking on the eye beside the other layers. This might make the editing a little easier.

6 – Enter quick mask mode by pressing Q or the quick mask icon on your tool bar.

7 – While in quick mask mode select the lasso tool and roughly trance around the person your going to pop out of the layer.

You want to get the selection as close to the edge of the person as you can to make the image a little more natural looking. FYI if your doing an image that has people that have shadows make sure to include the shadows.

8 - You can fine tune the selection by using selecting the brush tool (B or or the brush icon on the toolbar) while in quick mask mode. Press X to switch the mask mode to either add mask or subtract. In this case you want to have it taking mask away. If you mess up you can add back on by pressing X.

9 – Exit quick mask mode by either pressing the icon on the tool bar or by pressing Q. Once you exit quick mask mode you will see your selection outlined with a dotted marquee line. Select the inverse of this selection (shift + ctrl + I or select---> inverse) and hit delete to leave just the image of the person you wanted to pop out of the photo.

10 – Repeat Step 8 & 9 for all layers except the layer you are using as the background.

Once you are finished your image should look like this.