Newbie. Creating an Invitation.

[karlo]

Hello.

I'm basically new to this Photoshop thing. As far as I can remember, I'm really familiar with Corel Photo thing, Ulead PhotoImpact and the latest, GIMP. I have a phobia with using Adobe Products specially Photoshop. I know it's powerful yet I definitely know it's really difficult to use. I hope you guys can help me out to remove that phobia of using the said product.

Anyway a relative of mine asked me to create a pool party invitation for her. I attached it for reference. I just wanna make the image on the left like the image on the right. The image on the right was made using GIMP. What I did was, I selected the layer of the mermaid, then I created a new file out of it. After that I saved it as PSD. I opened it using GIMP and just placed the picture of the old lady under the mermaid. I just wanted the hair of the mermaid and some parts of it to kind of overlap the picture of the old lady to make it look more realistic and more funny. I was able to do that using GIMP apparently when I'm importing it on Photoshop, it's not transparent anymore.

Can anyone help me out on how to do it on Photoshop? Also I think I used too many "feather" settings. Please help me out. I'm totally pressured by this small yet funny project



Thanks everyone.

 

[dv8_fx]

Welcome, karlo.

To begin with, your face image is wrongly cropped. If the subjects profile was the same as the mermaid, it would have been a match. But it isn't so should compensate.

Select the entire face of the subject. I know you're trying to match her's with the mermaid's face based on the eyes. But the doing the way you did it makes the image off.

To match with the mermaid... try lowering the saturation, and try some of the artistic filters.

Give it a go and post your WIP. I'm sure others here will join in and walk you through it.

Enjoy your time and welcome to the forum.

 

[karlo]

Welcome, karlo.

To begin with, your face image is wrongly cropped. If the subjects profile was the same as the mermaid, it would have been a match. But it isn't so should compensate.

Select the entire face of the subject. I know you're trying to match her's with the mermaid's face based on the eyes. But the doing the way you did it makes the image off.

To match with the mermaid... try lowering the saturation, and try some of the artistic filters.

Give it a go and post your WIP. I'm sure others here will join in and walk you through it.

Enjoy your time and welcome to the forum.

How will I be able to do some layering stuff? That's my question. The photo coloring thing can go after inserting the image of the old lady on top of the mermaid yet the hair of the mermaid must overlap her forehead.

 

[dv8_fx]

To do that you have to select a small size eraser and set it at a low pressure and delete the persons forhead ever so slowly... a click at a time.

 

[karlo]

To do that you have to select a small size eraser and set it at a low pressure and delete the persons forhead ever so slowly... a click at a time.

the entire composition, the template is made by multiple layers. you can't just simply do that. i need help with layering and all that stuff.

 

[dv8_fx]

Do everything in PS.

Open the mermaid image and person image in PS. Use selection tool to create a rough selction around face and drag into the mermaid image.

Do the edits there to blend in the face. You don't have to do one thing in GIMP .

 

[karlo]

Do everything in PS.

Open the mermaid image and person image in PS. Use selection tool to create a rough selction around face and drag into the mermaid image.

Do the edits there to blend in the face. You don't have to do one thing in GIMP .

Here's what I am talking about. THERE ARE TOO MANY LAYERS. What to do with layers. How to use and manipulate layers.

 

[dv8_fx]

Ahhhh, that's what you mean.

I don't use GIMP so I can't comment much about it's working with layers....

But it's fine. Leave it as it is. The advantage is for tweaking the layers later to fine tune the result.

Unless it's slowing down your computer. In which case you flatten the entire image.... via Menu or from the layer pallete. Save as psd with a new file name so you don't overwrite the original work file.



In this file you drag and drop the subject..... and edit as pointed out above.... keeping the new face layer active by clicking it on the layers pallete.

When done, save the psd then SAVE AS for a flattened jpg copy.

 

[dv8_fx]

Don't do the face addition in GIMP. Do it in PS.

I've outlined a shortcut version.

If you decide use the layered template for edit, that's a different story based on the layers it contains....

 

[karlo]

Don't do the face addition in GIMP. Do it in PS.

I've outlined a shortcut version.

If you decide use the layered template for edit, that's a different story based on the layers it contains....

For reference, I can give you the PSD source and the picture of the old lady so you'll be able to understand the difficulty that I'm experiencing with Photoshop.

 

[dv8_fx]

Upload your psd, then. Advice is based on your screenshot.

 

[lorakf93]

It turned out nice !