How can I edit a photo

allthedoyles

Hi -
I want to make a photograph with the head of one person and the body of another .

Anyone here be able to explain how .

Thanks

FTGFOP

I'm assuming you don't have photoshop

If you're doing it for comic effect you can use MS Paint. Go to your photo...

• Open image
• Right click on image
• Select Edit
• Once the Paint program has opened press Ctrl and A to select the entire image, then press Ctrl and C to copy it.
• From the Image menu select Attributes, you will be prompted to adjust the width and height of the image. In each field double the number already present. Click OK.
• Right click on the image and select paste.
• Left click and drag the copy of the original image to the new blank area you've created.
• There is an star-shaped icon at the top left of the screen. This is the Free-Form Select tool. Click it.
• Move the pointer to the head you wish to swap and trace around the head area you want to overlay on to the original.
• When you're done tracing simply drag the head to its destination.
• If at this point you're done, go to the Image menu and select Attributes. Change each number to half of what it was. Click OK.
• Save your image.

My 60 second effort:

Image Source

Original:


Heads Swapped:



The opus in progress:



If you're just trying to be funny, like put your mate's head on some comically mismatched body, it's easy. If you want it to be more convincing (and assuming you don't have Photoshop or something) then use the biggest image you can get, and be very precise with your tracing. You can enlarge the image too to give yourself more room for mistakes.

drunkmonkey

FTGFOP wrote: »

I'm assuming you don't have photoshop

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What's the quickest way with Photoshop? tks

FTGFOP

Here's a video.

allthedoyles

Thats brilliant - I have Paint-Shop Pro and I have photoshop cs but dont know how to use it

Am gonna try now -

It is only for a laugh and need'nt be too professional , but still I dont want a square head , and would like to just extract the head only ..................if u know what i mean

ED E

Use the magic wand tool and adjust the sensitivity "to taste". Then create new layer from background and delete the white.

Now Paste into other photo.

5uspect

Forget the tragic wand. The magnetic lasso tool is ideal for selecting heads.