Merge picture and match body colour

[John Hallas]

I am playing around in CS2 and copying a face pic onto another bodybuilder type pic (from the film 300). I have got the head correctly positioned with lasso / move/transform and the use of the opaque filter and eraser.

What I am struggling to do is to get the skin colour to be anywhere near a match.

I have used foreground colour and selected a representative area on the chest with the eyedropper. I have then selected fill (opaque 80%) and done a fill fade down to around 20% but still no real match. Is there another technique I should use or do I continue with this until I get a better match

Thanks

John

[andy153]

Hi John - I think you might find this link provides the answers you need. I seem to remember that a golden rule in this sort of work was to ensure that the two images have their light sources coming from similar directions. Also I think you have to work on the colours and match them before you combine them - only ever done this once for a laugh in PS7 so that should give an indication of how long ago !! Anyway this should answer your question.http://en.allexperts.com/q/Adobe-Pho...hotographs.htm

[John Hallas]

Cheers Andy,

I can see that I need to change the colour scheme of at least one of the source images (copies of course) before merging.

Looks like another evening spent 'wasting my time' as my wife calls it. Of course I could be watching Desperate Housewives instead

Here is something that was knocked up at work for me using a photo from a race I ran and a cinema advert pic