superimpose image

[Brian Cluff]

There's a ton of ways to do what you want.  The biggest thing you will 
have to worry about is lighting.  For instance, if you are putting 
something that was lit from the left into a scene that was lit from the 
right, then there is little you can do. No matter how carefully you add 
it to your scene your brain will always tell you there is something 
wrong with the picture.

I tend to use a couple of different techniques to put one image into 
another.
If the background is a relatively solid color, I'll use a technique 
similar to this example for cutting out images while preserving fine 
details (hair in this example)... hint, you don't use ANY of the 
selection tools, or copy and past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbxtMCHKV0
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle81ofRLok
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quAChCnK_Dk

The other way I like combine image is brushing out the background using 
layer masks as demonstrated in this video with the leg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHJAJziWDs0

I usually use a combination of the 2 techniques since you rarely get 
perfect results with either method.

All these methods ultimately use layer masks, which is a much better way 
to combine photos than cutting and pasting since you can tweak what is 
transparent or not back and both without having to commit to a certain 
part of an image like you do with cutting and pasting.

Brian Cluff

On 01/07/2016 02:58 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> I found a way to super impose an image but it looks tacky.
> The method I learned was to open both files and then to select the 
> image you want to put on the other with fuzzytool. I found that didn't 
> work so I used the path tool. Well I cut the image out but the paste 
> doesn't look good. It is out of scale. For the purposes I need WHat 
> ithe best way to cut a house out and put it on a blue sky?
>
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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