I wonder if anyone can help me here? I have Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Paint Shop Pro V.7. and Serif Page Plus 7. I haven't had time to learn how to master either of them. But I'd like to take the cover of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely hearts Club Band' and replace the faces of the Beatles and some of the other people with faces of some friends of mine. I'd like to match the colours of the faces too so it looks okay. Does anyone here know which of these photo editors would do what I want? Oh yes, and how easy is it? (Or isn't it?)
I'd actually bought a CDROM called 'Face Family Favourites' for less than £14 which lets you do the job as easy as pie. All you do is drag & drop, rotate, resize and click a button which matches the colour of your face to the one it's being superimposed onto - simple! But it only lets you use the ready made templates supplied with it. There's plenty to chose from but they tend to be 'Wanted' posters or 'Super mdels'. It's a bit like sticking your head through a hole on a board at the seaside, with a cartoon picture of some muscle-bound hunk, if you know what I mean. It's not quite what I wanted so I'll be sending it back to QVC and getting a refund.
I've been told that Adobe PhotoShop will do the trick using 'Bodyswitch' or 'Smartselect'. Peter Grendon has offered to send me an older version on 4 floppy disks. Whether or not it'll be on them, I don't know.
Cheers,
Chirpy.
Hi
I am only familiar with Photoshop so am unable to comment on the other programs but they use much the same methods.
Its really just a matter of drawing a 'lasso' around the face you want place on the album cover, Copy it and Paste it onto the image of the album. Select Resize and drag the corner handles to arive at the same size as the face you want to Paste over. In Photoshop you should hold down the Shift Key to keep the same proportions for the image.
Having got the correct size to cover the original face, then select Adjust Colour etc. and use the controls to match the original face, if you want to.
Place your new face in position and select Flatten or Merge to 'stick' you new image into place. Repeat for all the other faces.
Let me know if you need more clarification. Good luck.
The method above works very well, I managed to to this to a friend of mine and superimpose his head on my body. He's Scottish and I was wearing an England Rugby shirt.
The end result (printed on photopaper) shocked him to the core....
Adam
Chirpy,
What wonderful tools you have available to you, and you don't know how to use them (LOL). (Mind you, there aren't enough hours in the day to do everything)
I use Paint Shop Pro V7, and that can do what you described quite easily.
Using these
Thanks guys for all your helpful suggestions.
Fishersman, you're right, there aren't enough hours in the day. As I was saying in another thread, I still haven't read through August or September's issues of CV!
I bought all three editing packages because they were all on special offer for a short time. But I was deep into another project at the time so I haven't been able to see what does what!
Thanks again, I'll get my 'lasso' out and have a go!
Cheers,
Chirpy.