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October 26, 2023
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add the image of a person

  • October 26, 2023
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I want to add a tiny person to my landscape photos to help give it scale. Can this be done in Photoshop? It doesn't seem Lightroom has this functionality.

 

Thanks,

Rob

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josantgomez
Legend
October 26, 2023

En Photoshop desde luego. En Lightroom , no lo sé. 

Una manera sencilla. Elige un archivo con la persona a llevar a otra foto.

Abre ese archivo y el del paisaje que recibirá la persona.

Selecciona al sujeto con la herramienta que prefieras. 

Abre ambos archivos y en ventana elige Organizar/Segmentar horizontal. Sitúa un archivo en un lado de la pantalla y el otro en el contrario. Con la herramienta mover, suele ser la primera en la columna de herramientas trasladas la selección del sujeto de un archivo al otro. Y en el otro coloca la selección donde te convenga. Puedes escalar la selección para optimizar el tamaño del sujeto con respecto al paisaje. Y ya está.  Con escalar quiero decir modificar tamaño, e incluso voltear la figura, darle inclinación , etc.   Un purista te diría que lo hicieras a través de capas, pero aquí se trata de comprender que es posible y sencillo. (Ya sabes que las capas son para evitar una edición destructiva).  Puedes practicar con otros archivos antes de llevarlo a cabo definitivamente y luego utilizar capas si lo estimas conveniente.

Acabo de ver que Trevor te da unas instrucciones mejores que las mías. Hazle caso. Lo que yo te dije, pues vale para practicar y que puedas visualizar mentalmente lo sencillo que es.

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 26, 2023

It can absolutely be done with Photoshop, and with the recent Ai tools that have been added to Photoshop, it can be done convincingly without needing years of experience.

 

Find a suitable image of the person, and open it in Photoshop

In Properties panel, click on Remove Background

 

As you can see, it does a stellar job.

 

With your landscape image also open, drake the cutout human layer to the landscape tab as below

 

Move it into position and resize with Free Transform (Ctrl T)

You can see that I have flipped the hiker to face the other way with Free Transform

To make the scale look right, the persons eyeline should be close to where you think the horizon would be.

Add (paint in) a shadow, and you are done.

Rob JBAuthor
Participating Frequently
October 26, 2023
The image of the person needs to be really tiny. It's not important to see any of the person's features. I just need to add it to the landscape so the person viewing[cid:6b7cbea4-7023-488b-903a-176b634d76c9] the image gets a sense of the size of the landscape. Here's a sample of the landscape - it's White Pocket along the Arizona/Utah border.

Any further advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob
Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 26, 2023

Exactly the same thing.  Make the person as small as you like so long as it is somewhere close to the image perspective.

The image above has differing levels, but the one below is nearer to level ground and shows how the eyeline needs to intersect the horiszon.  It doesn't need to be perfect, but is a good guide.