01-31-2007, 11:36 AM

Hi there,

I've had my mac book for a month or two now and i'm having a lot of fun on it.. Mainly im doing photoshopping and rubbish gif animations. I had a few questions and was hoping that perhaps you could help. I wanted to paste a friends face on to a famous person , i can do this, but not very well, the seems are all too obvious, does anyone have a tutorial or link that will show me how to do it properly..

also, i've enjoyed the animations i've done in image ready. On the interweb I often see well known clips that seem to have been photoshopped, for example leo in titanic but with someone else's face on.. how is this done? could I do it in photoshop or anything on my Mac or do I need to invest in specialist software to edit and mess around with already recorded video clips..

Many thanks, any help / links are greatley appreciated.

Morti00

01-31-2007, 12:11 PM

Photoshop is specialist software for still images.
If you want to do something similar with video, you would need to invest in an application like After Effects.
Using the two applications together, you can then edit the video.

01-31-2007, 01:53 PM

There are a couple ways to do it on a still photograph, the easiest for me is simply to make a selection around the head and then go to select => feather and enter around 15-50 pixels depending on the resolution of the image. Then copy and paste the selected head onto the other image, resize as needed to fit the scale of the image your moving the head into.

Does that help?

02-01-2007, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by Odin_aa

There are a couple ways to do it on a still photograph, the easiest for me is simply to make a selection around the head and then go to select => feather and enter around 15-50 pixels depending on the resolution of the image. Then copy and paste the selected head onto the other image, resize as needed to fit the scale of the image your moving the head into.

Does that help?

I'd only suggest using feather if you intend to copy part of the face (more like a face mask than a head transplant), so that the skin then blends over the skin of the celebrity. If you're selecting the entire head, hair and all, then don't use feather, unless the person actually has hair and skin that fades to nothing.

If you want a dead accurate selection, a combination of the selection tools is best. I'll either start with the pen tool (which would be great for faces, as there could be lots of subtle curves) or the lasso tool. Using the lasso tool, make lots of small selections, and add to them - don't try to get it done in one shot. Later, I switch to quickmask mode by hitting Q (hit again to convert to a selection again) to fine tune the selection, blur any parts if needed, or do some fine brush selection for the hair.

Then you can copy and paste and adjust if needed.

02-01-2007, 09:52 PM

Good point DT, I only replace faces or part of faces to fix odd expressions in group photographs.

02-01-2007, 10:19 PM

post the pictures and let some people on the forums see what they can do