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Levitation?


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Hello everyone

My first time on this forum and also my first time using photoshop! ;\

I am at acting school but have just got into photography and have been asked to make a poster for a production I am in.

The idea is to have the same person in 2 diffeirent areas of a photo but one has to be floating above a sea.

Now I have no idea how this can be achieved but I have 4 days to do it! :cry:

I have just started looking for things on the NET and have come into this forum for someone to save me!

Hope someone can help!

Kitty
 
Hi Kitty,

Welcome to the forums. What you will have to do is create a selection around the person who's image you wish to place above the sea and then extract the selected portion of the image and place it on the new background. There are a lot of issues which we would keep in mind to merge two images...light source, shadows etc.

To begin, I hope you have a big enough image to start with. In helping to organize your approach to this project we need some basic information. Open the image in Photoshop (what version of PS will you be using?) and use Image > Image Size... to determine the size of the images you are starting with. Tell us the pixel sizes of the images with which you will be working. Then, what size are the posters...your final output? Will they be printed commercially? What resolution does the printer require?

In order to create a poster in PS we have to know the output. Now about extracting the person from one image to float them above a sea, we really need to see the image to give you the best advice. There are many techniques in Photoshop to create selections, each of which may be applied to best advantage in different circumstances.

To show us a copy of your image, you will have to save a copy as a jpeg no bigger than 600px wide and upload it as an attachment. So open your image in PS and then use Image > Image Size... to resize the image to 600px wide. Then use Save For Web and save it as a JPEG no bigger than 100K. Once you have that you can close the image without saving and the original won't have been changed at all.

Do understand that you can do that project, with help, even completely new to Photoshop, but it will be a challenge to you and us to help. We'll try! ;)
 
edit: Doh! while I was replying Welles made his strike.? [confused]
So here's how to make something 'levitate' anyway.

Hi hellokitty! ?8)) or hello, Kitty? Is that redundant?? \:/ I'm confused! :cry:

Since your new to all this you probably need a good tutorial for beginners on extracting an image. I can't think of any of the top of my head, but maybe someone else here knows of a few good tuts.
Anyway, once you succed in cutting the person out, just drag (with the move tool) over to the sea picture. To make it look like something is floting above water you need to make a reflection in the water, and a shadow underneath.
To make the reflection, copy the layer with the person, then press crtl+t to transform, right click and select 'flip vertically'. Move the flipped person down a bit and apply the 'ripple' filter (filter > distort > ripple) Then set the blend mode to overlay.
Now for the shadow, take the circular marquee tool and make an eliptical selection under the person. On a new layer, fill the selction with black (alt+del) Apply a guassian blur (fliter > blur > guassian blur) and set the blend mode to softlight.
Well, that was a really quick job and it ain't much. But I hope you got what your looking for, and that you could understand it all. [honesty]
I didn't have a person so I used a orb.
 
Nice examples guys. :righton:

Patrick, don't forget to apply the Distort filter to your sphere reflection to conform it to the waves. ;)
 
Did I not? I applied the 'ripple' filter, but I think the correct way would be to use displacement, right? I thought going into displacement would be a bit much for Kitty to handle at the moment.[honesty]
 
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