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WARNING: Massive patience required.
Choose your photos.
I usually like them the same or at least, almost same size...the colorization of the photo helps too.
I always line my photos up before saving it onto my PC in order to work on them, when I see that they're both good enough to make a realistic manipulation...I choose them.
Like so--- Photo.
Tip--Larger photos work best.
Now, determine which will be your base photo.
(For me- KEANU=base KEIRA=second image.)
Tip--The base is always best when there's more room to work with.
BUT, there might be a chance where the photo that has most room would actually not be considered the base...for the fact that, the other photo will make it look much more realistic. CONCENTRATE ON MAKING IT LOOK AS REAL AS POSSIBLE.
That's the most important task to complete here.
And by chance...these two photos happen to have that wee problem.
Now, stick with the coloring on your base photo.
Things to take into consideration:
--Is the base very desaturated? Saturated?
--Is the base more smooth than sharpened?
etc, etc.
Try matching up your other photo, to the the base, like I had done. (Use of brightness/contrast, color balance, selective coloring, levels, variations, saturation/hue/lightness, etc.)
DON'T WORRY about the background of the second image, no one's gonna see it anyway. I also duplicate each of their bases, and gave them a gaussian blur @ 1.9, then I lowered the opacity to 15%. Just so they both have that smooth effect.
Like so-- Photo.
Guess what? The hard part.
On your tool box to the left, there should be a selection tool, if it isn't on polygonal lasso already, change it, by clicking & holding down on it, and a menu'll pop up, choose the polygonal lasso tool. This gives you 10x more control, and with manips YOU NEED COMPLETE control.
Get onto your second image, select the subject (Keira, in my case.) It's always best to stick as close as you can to ONLY the subject, and nothing else...I mean, sure you can do the whole 'just simply select around her in general' but that'll give you more work than you could've not had in the first place.
I believe when you have choices to make something easier for you, go through the hard part first.
Photo.
When it's all selected, right click the selection you've made, and click on 'Feather'. Type in 1. Since my photo is SMALLER than it would usually be when I create manips, the feather is smaller...otherwise, you'll be literally blending the images. >_< You don't want blends. PLEASE don't confuse this to blends....manipulations are manipulations, blends are completely different. (Check out the graphic glossary on my USER INFO.) If the image was much larger, perhaps 1000x3273 pixels, you'd feather the subject on 2 or 3, maybe even 4. Common knowledge is needed for this type of stuff.
After feathering, choose the move tool on your tool bar (the filled arrow) and click+hold down on your subject, and drag them over to the other photo. Now, on your layers box [very important, always have this open.] You should see Keanu, and Keira...or 'subject' & 'subject' rather. Photo.
Right now, it looks like total shit...but we'll fix that. As of the moment, we're concentrating on making the images match up in size, I do this by right clicking the 2nd subject with your retangular marquee tool, and clicking Free Transform.
You should get this, then by dragging the corners to it's right size, you'll get this. Good proportion matters, if Keanu's 6'1 and Keira is 5'7, don't make her 5'9 and Keanu 5'10, people--COMMON KNOWLEDGE!!
Now yes, I see that her hair is in his face. This is the hardest part---erasing.
THIS IS FOR LATER USES: First, select the eraser tool
, change the brush size to 3% and the opacity to 100%. Photo. (this is set to 45%, but make it 3%.)
Now that those settings are done, select your polygonal lasso tool and select the unwanted edges little by little, piece by piece. Once selected, press the DELETE key on your keyboard. Do it again, and again, till everything is gone.
Example:
So on and so fourth.
When you're done; it should look like this, and although there are few spots, you can now use your eraser and zoom in+erase the extra spots.
Now take the blur tool, size on 5%, opacity on 25%, and run it once onto the edges of the second subject...so that it isn't so sharp, like so:
Now, I positioned her again, with the move tool, just to make it look better.
Flatten it by pressing down the SHIFT+CTRL button, then the E button.
She does look slightly pixelized but this is the better part, where we make it look realistic, or at least...more than it is.
You can achieve this many ways, whether you follow what I did below, or went on your own from here.
The easiest way of making them 'match' is by desaturating it...but then, that makes it boring...at least, imo.
WHAT I DID:
I duplicated the layer:
(Click+Hold down the background layer, and drag it to the blank sheet on the layers box.)
I set that layer to screen, and flattened the image again.
Then I went to Image>Adjustments>Selective Coloring...played around with that.
Then I duplicated the background again, on screen 43%. Photo.
Then I duplicated the background one more time, on Linear Burn, 100%.
I flattened the image, duplicated the background, gave it a 1.9 gaussian blur on Overlay, 55%.
I desaturated [CTRL+SHIFT+U] that second overlay layer, then flattened the image again.
Cropped it to how I want it, and resized it, gave a second layer+gaussian blur again, flatten, gave it an unsharp mask layer on the filter menu.
I played with levels a bit, and the end.
THIS IS NOT THE BEST I'VE DONE.
This is just a simple thing for this tutorial, here are others:
For icons; just crop and resize:
Show me whatchu' got.
Choose your photos.
I usually like them the same or at least, almost same size...the colorization of the photo helps too.
I always line my photos up before saving it onto my PC in order to work on them, when I see that they're both good enough to make a realistic manipulation...I choose them.
Like so--- Photo.
Tip--Larger photos work best.
Now, determine which will be your base photo.
(For me- KEANU=base KEIRA=second image.)
Tip--The base is always best when there's more room to work with.
BUT, there might be a chance where the photo that has most room would actually not be considered the base...for the fact that, the other photo will make it look much more realistic. CONCENTRATE ON MAKING IT LOOK AS REAL AS POSSIBLE.
That's the most important task to complete here.
And by chance...these two photos happen to have that wee problem.
Now, stick with the coloring on your base photo.
Things to take into consideration:
--Is the base very desaturated? Saturated?
--Is the base more smooth than sharpened?
etc, etc.
Try matching up your other photo, to the the base, like I had done. (Use of brightness/contrast, color balance, selective coloring, levels, variations, saturation/hue/lightness, etc.)
DON'T WORRY about the background of the second image, no one's gonna see it anyway. I also duplicate each of their bases, and gave them a gaussian blur @ 1.9, then I lowered the opacity to 15%. Just so they both have that smooth effect.
Like so-- Photo.
Guess what? The hard part.
On your tool box to the left, there should be a selection tool, if it isn't on polygonal lasso already, change it, by clicking & holding down on it, and a menu'll pop up, choose the polygonal lasso tool. This gives you 10x more control, and with manips YOU NEED COMPLETE control.
Get onto your second image, select the subject (Keira, in my case.) It's always best to stick as close as you can to ONLY the subject, and nothing else...I mean, sure you can do the whole 'just simply select around her in general' but that'll give you more work than you could've not had in the first place.
I believe when you have choices to make something easier for you, go through the hard part first.
Photo.
When it's all selected, right click the selection you've made, and click on 'Feather'. Type in 1. Since my photo is SMALLER than it would usually be when I create manips, the feather is smaller...otherwise, you'll be literally blending the images. >_< You don't want blends. PLEASE don't confuse this to blends....manipulations are manipulations, blends are completely different. (Check out the graphic glossary on my USER INFO.) If the image was much larger, perhaps 1000x3273 pixels, you'd feather the subject on 2 or 3, maybe even 4. Common knowledge is needed for this type of stuff.
After feathering, choose the move tool on your tool bar (the filled arrow) and click+hold down on your subject, and drag them over to the other photo. Now, on your layers box [very important, always have this open.] You should see Keanu, and Keira...or 'subject' & 'subject' rather. Photo.
Right now, it looks like total shit...but we'll fix that. As of the moment, we're concentrating on making the images match up in size, I do this by right clicking the 2nd subject with your retangular marquee tool, and clicking Free Transform.
You should get this, then by dragging the corners to it's right size, you'll get this. Good proportion matters, if Keanu's 6'1 and Keira is 5'7, don't make her 5'9 and Keanu 5'10, people--COMMON KNOWLEDGE!!
Now yes, I see that her hair is in his face. This is the hardest part---erasing.
THIS IS FOR LATER USES: First, select the eraser tool
, change the brush size to 3% and the opacity to 100%. Photo. (this is set to 45%, but make it 3%.)
Now that those settings are done, select your polygonal lasso tool and select the unwanted edges little by little, piece by piece. Once selected, press the DELETE key on your keyboard. Do it again, and again, till everything is gone.
Example:
So on and so fourth.
When you're done; it should look like this, and although there are few spots, you can now use your eraser and zoom in+erase the extra spots.
Now take the blur tool, size on 5%, opacity on 25%, and run it once onto the edges of the second subject...so that it isn't so sharp, like so:
Now, I positioned her again, with the move tool, just to make it look better.
Flatten it by pressing down the SHIFT+CTRL button, then the E button.
She does look slightly pixelized but this is the better part, where we make it look realistic, or at least...more than it is.
You can achieve this many ways, whether you follow what I did below, or went on your own from here.
The easiest way of making them 'match' is by desaturating it...but then, that makes it boring...at least, imo.
WHAT I DID:
I duplicated the layer:
(Click+Hold down the background layer, and drag it to the blank sheet on the layers box.)
I set that layer to screen, and flattened the image again.
Then I went to Image>Adjustments>Selective Coloring...played around with that.
Then I duplicated the background again, on screen 43%. Photo.
Then I duplicated the background one more time, on Linear Burn, 100%.
I flattened the image, duplicated the background, gave it a 1.9 gaussian blur on Overlay, 55%.
I desaturated [CTRL+SHIFT+U] that second overlay layer, then flattened the image again.
Cropped it to how I want it, and resized it, gave a second layer+gaussian blur again, flatten, gave it an unsharp mask layer on the filter menu.
I played with levels a bit, and the end.
THIS IS NOT THE BEST I'VE DONE.
This is just a simple thing for this tutorial, here are others:
For icons; just crop and resize:
Show me whatchu' got.