Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design HowTo, and today I'm going to show you how to take
a photo and put it into another photo in Adobe Photoshop. So, this will look something like this,
um, and then it'll end up looking like this. And hopefully, this black eye that I got in volleyball
a few weeks ago will be completely gone by next week's video. All right, let's get started.
Okay, so here are the two photos that I'm going to use, and I want her to be inside
the beach scene. So, I'm going to select my two photos and just drag them onto my Photoshop icon
right here. And when we do that, we'll have two tabs, one with each of the photos. Now,
you can also go to File > Open and navigate to the one you want, and then do that again,
and you'll end up with the same result—two different tabs with two photos on them.
Now, if your image already has a transparent background, go ahead and jump to the timestamp
on your screen right now, which just shows how to get that image into your other image. Now,
I'm going to open my Layers panel, and I can hit F7 to open it; it's right here. Or you can also
go up here to Window and open it this way. Right now, if I move this girl onto the
beach scene, we're going to see all this pink background. So, I want to remove her
from the background. I'm going to hit W to select my Wand tool right over here,
and then I'll come up here to the top bar and choose Select Subject. And when we do this,
you'll see the selection, otherwise known as marching ants, around your subject. Now, this
doesn't always work 100%, but if you have kind of a blank background, it should work pretty well.
Now, I'm going to come down here to the bottom of my Layers panel, and there's a layer mask.
And what this does is it will hide everything outside of that selection. So, let's click it,
and now you can see we have this checkerboard background, which just means there's nothing
there; it's transparent. You can see on this mask that where she is is white, and then where
the background was is black. So, if you decide you want more of her showing, you can actually
paint right on this mask and bring parts of her back. So, I just want to show you that real quick.
I'm going to click right on that mask. Make sure you're not over here; make sure you're on the mask
itself. Then I'll hit Z to zoom in, and that's this tool right down here. I'm just going to
zoom into this part because it's a little rough. Then I'll hit B to get to my Brush tool right over
here. I'll hit D on my keyboard to get a white foreground and a black background. Now, we're
going to be painting with the foreground color, so I'll hit B. I'm going to increase my brush size a
little bit, and then I'm just going to paint. So, I'm revealing more of the image. Now, I'm
going to switch those, so I have black in front, and I'm going to go over the part that's showing
that I don't think looks right, which is the pink background. I can also increase my smoothing up
here to get a more smooth edge. I'm going to hit Command + 0 or Control + 0 to get back.
Now, to get her onto the other image, first I want to get on my Selection tool, which is this top one
in the toolbar. I'm just going to click and drag this onto that other tab and then hold until the
picture from the other tab shows up on my screen. I'm going to keep holding down on my mouse until
I get over that image and then release. And here she is. Now, she's really big, so we
need to resize her. I'm going to hit Command + T or Control + T to get to my Free Transform tool,
and that is Edit > Free Transform right here. Then I'm going to hit Command + 0 or Control + 0,
and this will show you the whole size of Layer 1, which she's on. I'm going to get my mouse
on the corner and just click and drag to make her smaller. You might need to hold Shift to maintain
your proportions; it depends on the version of Photoshop that you have and your settings. Once
you have her where you want, just hit Enter or Return on your keyboard to commit the changes.
Now, you've added the image into the beach scene. Really, what you've done is added a layer,
and you can turn off the layer. You can come over here to the Move tool,
move it around. If you want to make it bigger or smaller, you can hit Command + T on your keyboard;
that's Control + T on a PC. You can rotate; you can resize. And if you don't like what you've
done, hit Command + Z or Control + Z to undo. Let's say you want to view all of the image,
including the pink background. You can hold Shift and click that layer mask,
and it'll put a red X over it and just turn it off. So, it's still there;
you're just not seeing the effect of that mask. Hold Shift and click it again to turn it back on.
The background is still there; it's just hidden. When I'm finished with my Photoshop files, I have
masks on several layers, and it's okay to leave them in there. Now, let's save this. Whenever
you're working in Photoshop, you'll want to save two versions: the Photoshop file with the layers,
and then a flattened, uneditable version like a JPEG or PNG, or like a PDF. The JPEG or PNG are
good for digital, like what you put on Instagram or a website, and PDF is good for printing. And if
you're printing, hopefully, both of these images are really big because they need to be to get a
good crisp, non-blurry print. But you'll always keep the native file. So, let's save that. I'll
go to File > Save As. We'll call this "Combined Image," and we'll want to save this as a Photoshop
file. Then we'll click Save and say okay. Next, I'll make a JPEG, so I'll go to File
> Export > Export As. And then I'll change this to JPEG. I really don't need it to be quite this big;
I'm going to make it 1000 pixels wide. And everything else here looks good, so I'll export.
I'm going to save it in the same folder. I usually name it the exact same name as the Photoshop file,
so I'll call it "Combined Image" and click Save. Now, it's not going to ask me to overwrite since
it has the same name, but that is because it has a different extension. So now we have a JPEG file;
we've got our PSD file, and this is the one that we'll want to upload to say Facebook or Instagram
or something like that. But you'll always keep two files: your native file, which is the PSD file,
and then your flattened file, which is your JPEG. Now, if your boss comes along and says, "Hey,
we need you to make that girl a little bit bigger," if you try to do that with your JPEG, you
don't have any way to easily do that. She's not on a separate layer; you only have the background
layer. But since you've kept your PSD file, you have her on a separate layer. Now you can just hit
Command + T or Control + T, get on a corner, make her a little bit bigger, and then save. You might
even want to add -V2 for version two. I would do File > Save As and then just put -V2 at the end.
And we'll also do our JPEG as V2. And the reason you would want to do this is because it is very
common for a client to come back and say, "You know, I liked the original better; let's go with
that one." So, you just save some time because you can just use this in that case. And that's it!
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