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Hello everyone,

I'm fairly new to Photoshop, I started messing around with the very basic some years back when I was 15 but I didn't really try to get good at it however now I have an urge to learn it all... Some things have bothered me and I can't seem to find any good tutorials or guides on it which is how to merge another object onto something else and make it look realistic with shadowing and such. I've tried a few times one particularly was when I wanted to create a female model who was going to have her skull showing a bit and it turned out horrible, where the shadowing looked like a drawing by a 3-year old and the Skull looking more like a fake mask over her face.

So my question is how do I make my merging more realistic? A tutorial that someone of you knows about would be great or if someone more experienced could give me advice!

I also want to add to the thread how do you make an object really look good on something else for example say that I want to put the superman logo on my chest and make it "a part of me" so that it follows my figure or if I wanted to put my personal sticker on a like a coca cola bottle and don't have it being flat and boring?

Any answer is much appreciated, I'm a member as of today so I hope to stay around a bit longer and get help to eventually become better!

Sincerely,
Supertuba
 
Hi Supertuba, and welcome.

Your question can be rater difficult to explain. There are many different Ps techniques employed while blending objects together. Blending images.

The biggest part of making them look realistic will be choosing who or what you want to blend. It's a matter of making sure the color, sharpness, lighting, shading, etc., are similar to the image they are being blended with.

Following contour and outlines can be a matter of perspective and using tools and techniques to help accomplish perspective such as the Transform functions, Perspective Crop, Perspective Warp (CC), and the Vanishing Point filter. And of course there's good ole Displacement Masking. It depends on the project.

I suggest that you might start a new thread on a project. Have an idea with references ready to go and the members here can walk you through the steps in accomplishing your goal. Maybe one you've already mentioned above (except the lady with the skull.....start of with something a bit easier).

Good luck.
 
maybe you should post your stock images u used for the girl and skull , iamsam is dead right , blending images is much easier if the lighting , contrast , size etc are simililar

look into displacement techniques for the superman idea

post also if you still have it your attempt at the girl and skull as a group im sure you will get good advice
 
Thanks for the advice, I will try to find my stock pictures used for the project I mentioned and and then post them in a new thread! I will also take a look at how to use the tools IamSam posted about so I maybe can start using them in future projects.

As for the lady I might put her aside for now until I know more then!

Again thanks for your replies!
 
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