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I want to replace the person or at least the head of the person in the attached image with the person or head of the person in my second image. The person or head I want replaced is the fella standing at the far right in the back row with the person or head of the person in the single image attached here. I am failing miserably at trying to do this. Can someone please help?
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Are you sure that's what you want? Looks kind of wrong to me.
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@Trevor.Dennis OMG you're next 'James Fridman!'
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Funny,,, but not what I asked...
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Here ya go. Easy peasy. 😉
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🙂 now that is funny! 🙂
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ROTFL!!! Now that made me REALLY laugh.
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Thanks ... I've watched that video before and even again today. I can't get any of that to work. When I add the second image it shows it as the background. According to the video it should be a layer.
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Yes, Photoshop is all about layers and masks. Thick about those fairground games were wet sponges are thrown at person who has their head through a hole in a board with an image on it. The photoshop equivalent would be to a) have just the head on a layer above the background layer, or b) effectively have a hole in the background image, and place the head on a layer behind it. I nearly always use the latter method.
To make a hole in a layer,m we use a layer mask which we can add by clicking on the layer mask icon at the bottom of the layers panel (my green highlight). To help us remember, we say 'Black Conceals, White Reveals'. So where I painted with black on the layer mask, we can see through to the red layer behind it.
If we place the single person image behind the group image, we can see part of it through the hole we made in the group layer. There are two problems. It is much too big, and has a strong yellow colour cast.
To adjust the size we use Free Transform (Ctrl T) and drag the corner handles. If you move the curser to just outside a corner handle, you can also rotate the layer. The size is better now, but we can see that in this case it would be better to place the new head 'ABOVE' the background layer.
To do that we need to make a selection of the new head. Selections are incredibly easy to do nowadays with Photoshop's newer Ai enhanced tools. In this case the Object Selection Tool works well.
With a good selection made, we need to refine it with Select & Mask from the Options Bar. You are going to have to go search for a video on Select and Mask
I made the layer and maska Smart Object (by right clicking) and added a new mask so I could mask out the nec and shoulders. Use Transform again to size, rotate and position — I also flipped it horizontally to better match the exisiting head. That just leaves the colour cast.
A Color Balance adjustment layer is probably the most user friendly way to fix the yellow cast, but note that I have 'clipped' it to the new head (layer 2) by clicking on the icon (my yellow highlight).
We could do more to mage the contrast and light a better match, but I have spent enough time on this.
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Thanks, your directions pretty much follow the video. My issue at the moment is how to get the 2 images into Photoshop in the right order and as background and layer. Both your instructions and the video don't address that. I am guessing that once I figure that out I should be able to follow both your directions and those in the video.
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To add one image into another image, open both images in Photoshop. Select the first image you want to add to the second image and with the Move tool, drag the first image over the title bar of the second image. Do not release the mouse. That should activate the second image. Drag the first image down into the second image and then release the mouse.
Alternatively, you can select the first image and copy it into the second image. However, the first image avoids the clipboard which can be memory intensive.
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I actually tried that as it shows the technique in the video link above. I could not get it to work.