PhotoShopped~Photography (Lessons)

CLUTCHONE · Dec 28, 2006

SweetChin said:

got bored tonight...

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digitalHorizon said:

Easy. Tripod + camera + photoshop is all you need.

Set up the picture, correct exposure etc. Have a remote or timer, and pose for it, take the picture, move, take another picture, move, take another picture... without touching or moving the camera. Then in PS, you can overlay all of them, since all of the backgrounds are the same they'll line up as one picture, but you'll be in 2 or 3 or 4 different spots.

There's different ways of doing it, I think the easiest would be to use the lasso or pen, cut yourself out of each picture, right click (when its still highlighted) and click "layer via copy". Then make sure the layers are all linked and shift-drag the layer onto it (using the arrow function from the toolbar), and after its there delete the layer that was the background on the picture you dragged ONTO it. That will make sure that you're where you're supposed to be in the picture since you shift-dragged, and you can either blend the layer in or whatever. Try not to overlap at first because then you have to be a lot more precise in cutting yourself out, whereas if you're just standing random places you can just roughly cut yourself out.

This is a bad example, as you can see the pillar doesn't line up (which I didn't catch until I uploaded just now)... but its all I have on my work computer. The tripod must've moved or something but it should line up when you do it.
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SweetChin said:

yeah its really simple to do... all you need is a tripod, camera with a manual settings and a timer and photoshop...
just start off taking a few test pix to get the exposure right.. (my pic could have been a lot better if i wasnt using loooong ass exposures)
Then once you got everything setup on the camera, setup the timer and start takin pix
Then comes the photoshop...
what i do is use one of the pix as the main background picture.
then i crop myself out of all the other pictures and move them onto the main picture and then line everything up... reason i use crop rather then lasso is cuz i think its easier to line things up.
Once you got everything lined up, i start eraseing away at all the stuff i dont want on the layers cuz you'll see one layer overlapping other layers...
another thing is layer placement... some of the layers have to be placed in a certain order or else it wont look right...

if i wasnt lazy, i would take screen shots of my psd file and all its layers but im too lazy for that
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Im Trying hard to Learn this Method~Any Extra Help would be Appreaceted oke:

Neil · Dec 28, 2006

I've got a tripod that I never use. I'm hoping to get some shutter time in this summer with the rex. If anyone knows about this stuff and is GOOD, do a tech article type of thing, or maybe help with some Photoshop/Paint features that normal folks like myself might not know about.

Nice thread.

g3teg97 · Dec 28, 2006

Cool thread!

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