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international multi-award-winning portrait photographer Jessica McGovern
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so without further ado we've got to move a subject in an image in photoshop let's get stuck in
So on the screen we've got a picture of little Guess in Paris this photograph was shot by Ayssia
i will add the links to her and everything about her in the description below if you're brand new
to photoshop this might be a little bit too scary for you i'll pop a video about photoshop basics
above if even that is a little bit too advanced for you and what we're going to discuss is quite
quick then have a look at the photoshop for beginners online course i'll also link that
above so first thing we're going to do is we're in photoshop with the image we're going to go
ahead and duplicate the background layer by using command J there are loads of keyboard shortcuts
they're also in a YouTube video so i'll go ahead and link that above too with our background layer
duplicated we're going to duplicate it again one more time so on the bottom copy we're going to
call this one the background because this is the new background and on this top one we're going to
call this the subject when it comes to this actual background layer with the padlock on it we're just
keeping that for safekeeping we don't actually need it so don't worry about it too much on this
subject one we don't need this one yet we're going to turn it off and we're going to look at just the
background the first step in moving a subject is to heal the area where they existed in the first
place so we're going to go ahead and do a select and a subject to grab the subject then we're going
to do a select modify and expand and we're going to go in by about 50 pixels you can change this as
required so the aim of this basically is to have a little gap around the edge that the dog or the
subject in whatever case you're working in does not pass through that line okay so we've got a gap
then what we need to do is heal the subject out of this image completely so lots of different
ways of doing this with the content aware fill we've got videos on how to remove stuff
but i'm going to just go with a shift backspace enter for this content aware fill technique
and see how well photoshop did i mean it's not the worst thing i've ever seen i can work with
it so when you've done that you want to clean up the area i'm going to use the
healing brush tool if you're brand new to that you don't know what it is there's
a video about that released the other week so go ahead and have a look at that
it's pretty good
so
it's pretty good
okay so we should be left with an empty scene now we've got no subjects in at all so we're going
to turn on the subject layer grab hold of that layer then go and do another select and subject
only this time we're actually going to mask it now there's whole videos on the youtube channel
i think there's two that cover off masking hair so have a look at them if you need to
i'll link the most recent one above but we just want to go into select select a mask and then
follow our normal masking procedure so no change over the normal masking procedure
i'm just going to do a messy mask because i'm pretty sure this is going to mask out pretty well
this is like the messiest mask i think i've ever done
there we go i'll put it to a layer mask really important so we're going to add that to a layer
mask and then now just by magic we can move Guess around so then all that's left to do is to line
him up with where we want him to be and you want to make sure you've got a good line happening here
alright and then i'm going to go on the mask grab a brush and about 30 percent opacity i'm going to
use white and just blend the bottom of him in with the steps that he is on so just give a
little bit of a blend and you can also go up the edge of the coat if the background is the same
to just give a little bit more depth back to the coat a little bit more to the top of his
head he's looking adorable and that is that so we've gone from here to here all nice and fixed
subjects moved in the image nobody would ever know and that is that job done that's how to move
a subject in photoshop within an image hopefully that was useful for you if it was please do let
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you because that would be great and hopefully i'll see you back next Friday for another tip