Move part of an image to another part.

[EMJAY]

I want to take a small part of an area of a photo and use it to fill another isolated part. I’m following a tutorial on Clipping Masks which seems to be a pretty straight forward way to do it but this is a little extra to what’s in the tutorial. What I need to do is to put a partially transparent layer over the background layer so that I can ‘trace’ the shape of the isolated part of the BG layer which is to take the new piece of background. How do I do that? I have done it by cloning but That's not the point of the exercise. I’m trying to learn this method. Using CS5.

Mike.

 

[egosbar]

do a duplicate layer , move that layer around to the part you want is where you want on the bottom layer lower the opacity too 50% so you can see both pictures , then add a layer mask too the layer on top , paint with black to reveal the bottom picture leaving the part you want

if you use a soft brush it should blend in then set the opacity back too 100

i see in your post its and excersise but that is the way i would do it , i dont think cs5 has content aware move tool but if it has id use that first too see how it went

hope that makes sense

 

[EMJAY]

Thanks Egosbar I'll give that a go tomorrow.
Mike.

 

[IamSam]

Well, without seeing an example of what your talking about, (add images please) I would think this to be very easy.

edit: I'm addressing the moving part, not the tracing part. Not sure why you would need that.

Just outline/isolate the area you want to move with the Pen Tool or the Polygonal Lasso Tool or any of the Marquee Tools and then copy the selection to it's own new layer (command + J). Then you can move it anywhere you like. After that it's about blending.

This is a quick and dirty version using a watermarked image from the net.

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Isolated area to be moved. I used the Polygonal Lasso Tool.


I then reversed the image by going to EDIT > TRANSFORM > FLIP HORIZONTAL.
I then used the Move Tool and the Transform function (command + T) to move the object and position.


Depending on the object moved, you would have to do some blending from here and that might require a layer mask as well as some other tools.