Superimposing images 3

[bdogsquad]

I'm currently working on an advertising campaign in portfolio class and I want the most realistic way to use one persons body and superimpose another persons head, etc. on that body. I would definitely appreciate the help with this.

Ben

 

[barehug]

If I were you - and if you can stomach it - I would hang around one of those Fakers forums, as that is pretty much all they do!

I would imagine that matching colouring and tone, and matching the angle of head to the body would be the main considerations to erm.. consider!

Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.

 

[prophotodx]

Don't forget to match the light angles, if the light is coming from the top in one photo and the side in another it will never look right.....

http://www.doublexpressions.com

 

[blueark]

Photoshop CS has a great new "Match Color" feature which may help for this type of work. Put the head on one layer, the body on another, and use the match color command between the two. If you don't have CS, try the normal color correction tools. Actually, you'll probably need to use them anyway to get an accurate finish.

After that, careful use of layer masks, cloning, healing, airbrushing, transforming.... the usual photoshop stuff.

As doublexpressions suggested, though, careful selection of source images is essential. You could spend twice as long correcting unsuitable images and it may only look half as good!