Unless there's a really bad expression on the faces, don't try to copy
and align entire heads. If it's just the eyes that are the problem just
work with a good set of eyes. Here's how I'd do it...
Open the files with the bad and good eyes and zoom them to get a good
view of the eyes.
On the pix you want to fix, create a duplicate layer of the background
and additional blank layers one for each eye of the person(s) you want
to fix.
Copy the good left eye from the "supply" file and paste it into the
first blank layer of the "to be fixed" file. When you select the good
eye, be sure to feather it by about 5 or 10 pixels.
Set the opacity of the layer you just pasted the good eye into to about
50% so you can see the bad eye below it and adjust the good eye to
overlap the bad one - move it around, adjust the size and rotation as
necessary to line up with the closed eye. When you think you've got it
right, re-set the opacity of that layer to 100% and see how it looks.
If it's OK, repeat the same thing for the other eye on the next blank
layer. If not, reduce the opacity again and continue adjusting until
you have the correct placement, size and rotation.
Repeat as necessary for any other closed eyes you have, always putting
one eye on a separate blank layer and being sure all the "eye layers"
are returned to 100% opacity when you're done with them.
When you think you've got it right, save the file as a psd so you can go
back and work on the layers if you need to, then flatten the layers and
re-save it as a jpg.
Print or post online to the awe of the masses that will admire your
photoshop skills.
-p
David J Brooks wrote:
Cotty had a suggestion for my fire fighter group shot, to scale and
cut and paste in the two heads that have eyes open.
I started to play with it last night before bed time.
I drew around the good head(oh i can see this going south quickly) and
moved it over to the second photo. I then went and cut out the head
with the closed eyes, and when it disapeared it left a whit back
ground, but it seems to spill the white out over part of the photo.,
and looked terrible.
I then tried to over lap the two photos, there is some slight body
differnces, and use a mask and erase the bad heads. Worked fairly
well, but whats the best way to do a cut and paste of the heads, with
out the white spill over. I know i'll have to do a bit of cloning.
Any help is appreciated, i want to make a print foro the station.
Dave
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