 Missy P |
Photoshop - Insert Image on Photo I have Photoshop CS. I would LOVE to learn how to insert a butterfly or bird onto my photo. I have had wonderful help but with photoshop versions being different I am getting lost. Please respond.
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Craig m. Zacarelli |
open the butterfly or bird pic, remove it from its background however you like, (erase the Background or cut out the subject.. then minimize it... now open the pic you would like to pots the subject into, and go to img>resize and make a not of the size of the pic. now, go up to file> new> and make a new blank file with a clear background (it will look like a gray and white checkerbord...) now maximize the bird pic and click it with the magic wand tool to out line your bird with the dotted line (i call em marching ants) then hit copy.. now minimize it again and open you new blank document, hit paste and save it as a PSD file somewhere but dont close it. now minimize that one again and maximize the picture to get the bird pasted into it and click paste... re size and position you pasted bird by clicking "free transform", now you can adjust the size and position of the bird by dragginh the little "handles" on the deges of the bounding box around the bird... (if you open up the layers view under "windows tab, you can work on any layer and shut off (hide) any layer there) now once you get it right you can just click on any other tool and it will "paste the bird down automaticlly. now to make it look like it was there all along, go to the layers window and shut off all the layers except for the bird one you just pasted in.. now click it with the magic want, go up t selection and hit feather, then do a radious of about 3 and go to edit, fill, and when the fill option box comes up select clear. it will fade the edges slightly to make it not look so "pasted in.. once its done go to Layers and hit flatten image! there are easier ways but this was easier for me to explain...lol Craig-
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Missy P |
Thanks for the respond. I appreciate it so much. What is the free transform? Thanks again,
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Pete H |
Hi Missy, Craig's response while accurate is not as easy as it sounds. "Cutting out" a object can be VERY easy if it is very contrasty compared to the background..(i.e)..a black circle on a white background. Generally and rarely is this the case. There are "add on" programs that do a excellent job in this..I believe "Lizard-Tech" makes one..a bit pricey though. I really can not walk you thru a "proper" way of cutting out an object, (that would take a small book) but you might want to get a good book on Adobe CS and look particularly at Masking, Vector Mapping, threshold edge contrast, Lab Mode, Channel Mixing..while the above topics are used for superior results, they are not easy to master and quite time consuming. Probably the easiest way to do it: Enlarge your photo to 200% and slowly begin selecting the outline of the butterfly. If you miss or go out of bounds, no sweat, just use the "add" or "subtract" selection tool. Entire books have been devoted to just this subject. Oh; Free Transform is a way to enlarge or decrease the size of the object...Personally I do not use it as my eye is not good enough to detect offset distortions..I prefer and suggest you also use the "percentage" boxes to enlarge "both" dimensions equally. They are labled "X" and "Y" All the best, Pete
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Slim Brady |
you can use extract, the magic wand or select the backround and then invert those marching ants. Then use the move tool and plant it on your picture, size it correctly and your done. Then save as a JPEG.
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