help in photoshop 7.0?

Question

suppose in a photo i am standing in a garden and i want to make it look like that i am standing in front of any famous place....in short i want to change the background....pls help!!!

Answer 1

You copy the person (yourself) that you want in front of the alternate background and then drop that person into the other image. Here's my old stock answer that will help.



Photochop



You could spend a day taking a class learning to do this one task. I'll assume that you have some of the basics and want to refine your technique.



First, your selection of yourself in the first picture must be a good one. Try the magnetic lasso with these settings:



Feather: 1 px, anti-alias

Width: 1 px

Edge Contrast: 1%

Frequency: 50



This will give you a pretty clean selection with just a LITTLE bit of fuzziness to cover up your slips. The magnetic lasso will "pin" the selection line down at several points by itself, but you can click on the mouse at any point where you want to be SURE that it adds an anchor point to your selection path.



When you drop your selection into the new picture, it will appear in its own layer automatically. Choose the "Move" tool. Move the selection until it is where you want it. You can drag one of the corners of the move box to resize the head until it matches the scale of the other image. Keep it there as you erase any parts that should look like they are going behind someone who is in your original image. Making this kind of overlap makes it look more realistic.



It also help if you cut the opacity of the new part to about 50% or less as you work with the clone tool in the original image in any places where the original head shows under the new one.



Put the opacity back to 100% and hit [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[E] to merge the layers. You may have to use a bit more cloning or healing brush to blend the new head to the old body.



Mostly - practice, practice, practice!



Here's a so-so job of doing just what you are talking about. The couple and their dog were taken at a different time and location from the original group, so there are a lot of lighting and contrast issues, but it is what it is. http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/911957385/



Here's one where I took a whole guy out of the picture. http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/1522154698/

Answer 2

If you're not super fussy about the details and just want a quickie fix try this.



Open the picture of the famous location and create a background copy.

Open the picture of yourself and drag the background copy of the famous location onto the workspace of the picture of you.

Add a layer mask to the layer that has the copy of the famous location.

Go to edit, fill, choose black 100%.

Choose the paintbrush tool and "paint in" the location around yourself with white paint.

This is probably the easiest way to do it as when there are mistakes such as painting in location picture over your arm for instance you can just paint it back out by switching back to black paint.

Paint in the bulk of the location with a large solid edged brush and then zoom in to fine tune the last details with a smaller brush that has a soft edge. Just a tiny bit of experimenting will net you decent but very quick results.

Then just flatten your image to save as jpeg.

Answer 3

Mask the subject and copy as new object. Change the color of the object as desired (in the photo one is purple and the other looks grayscaled) Probably by adjusting the RGB values. Then choose a solid color for the drop shadow with a large offset value. Mask the shadow, grow the mask by about 5 pixels to create the border on the shadow and invert the mask and do a bucket fill of black on the border. Did I lose you yet? Play around with it and have fun, don't copy someone elses work, be unique.