In this Photoshop tutorial, I'm going to show you how to put a person into a photo.
So you want to visit the Eiffel Tower, but you can't get there.
So what you do is take a photo in a different location and then transfer the person in there.
To get the images into Photoshop, just choose File Open.
There's a few steps.
The first step we want to do is cut the person out.
Let's do that now.
And in Photoshop, we're going to move down and use the Object selection tool.
If you have an earlier version such as CS Six, you're going to use Quick Selection.
In our case, we're going to use Object Selection and choose select.
Subject Photoshop will automatically make the selection.
To refine this edge, choose select and Mask.
Give it one Pixel radius.
See how it's jaggy?
Give it a little bit of feather.
And in contrast, it should mostly be smooth now, but grab the refined brush and just grab
those last little bits.
To fix those.
Turn on decontaminate colors.
Output New Layer with Layer Mask Click OK.
Let's combine the images with the layer selected.
Click and drag up into the tab of the image you want to go into.
Don't release yet.
Go into the image and now release.
And there's our photo.
Now we want to match the lighting.
Notice on this photo you can see the light comes from the top a little bit to the left.
We need to flip our image CTRL T for free.
Transform right click.
Choose Flip Horizontal.
Now the lighting is coming from the same direction.
You can tell because of the shadows under her arms and then her legs.
It's still a little bit large.
So what I'm going to do is hold down the option key, scroll out so I can see these handles.
And then we're just going to shrink this down a little bit and get the size where you want
it.
Now we need to match the color with Ally's still selected.
Choose Filter Neural Filters.
Now, if you're using an older version of Photoshop, use Match Color.
You'll see that under Image adjustments.
Match color.
But we're on the newer version, so we're using Harmonization.
Turn it on, then choose a layer and we want to choose the background.
Photoshop will match the colors quite often.
It's too strong because of all the green and the grass.
So take the strength down and turn up the brightness just a little bit.
There, that's better.
Click OK.
Now we need to put a shadow in so the person looks like they belong in this photograph.
So with your layer selected, with the person, choose Effects and we're going to select a
drop shadow.
When the drop shadow first appears, it's going to look like she's against a Billboard.
We want to put her into the environment.
You can drag to change position.
What we're looking for right now is the softness.
Let's increase the size which is the softness.
In this case, 21 might be enough.
Click.
Ok, now let's separate the shadow where it says effects.
Right click and choose create layers.
Notice it puts the shadow onto its own layer.
Select the shadow layer and we can see the lighting is coming down so hit CTRL T or command
T for free transform and let me drag it into position because if the light is Colin from
the left the shadow will go on the right and vice versa.
Now I'm just going to drag this straight down because the sun is quite high.
If the sun was coming more of an angle sunrise sunset you would choose right click and distort
and you would drag this out in the opposite direction of the sun.
In this case there's not much of a shadow because the sun is quite high up so we're
just going to drag it down a little bit to the side, right click and choose skew.
I'm just going to drag the back across a little bit.
Hit enter reposition that shadow.
Probably want to soften it a little bit filter blur and we're going to give it a Gaussian
blur.
Move it till it just softens.
The last thing we need to do is reduce the opacity a little bit until it just kind of
matches the scene and see how the shadow just anchors the object into the photo.
Now if we looked at this before Eiffel tower and now you're there so I hope you enjoyed
this simple tutorial.
I know it's not perfect but I wanted to really focus just on the steps that you can use so
you can add any person to any photograph.
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Until next time, I'll see you at the cafe.