Photomerge Faces

[bocabob]

In attempting several times to photomerge two faces, one always comes out as a thumnail.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

[jjvera00]

Are you trying to drag and drop one pic from the photo bin to the other pic? If so, I think that may be the problem. What you need to do is tile or casade your windows of the two pics, then drag one pic from one to the other. The one you drag will create a new layer.

Johnny

[kImages]

Hi Bob and welcome to the forum. When you say that you are trying to photo merge two faces, are you trying to use the PSE6 capability of aligning two different photos? Or are you trying to make a composite image of two different people from two photos?

[bocabob]

Hi Bob and welcome to the forum. When you say that you are trying to photo merge two faces, are you trying to use the PSE6 capability of aligning two different photos? Or are you trying to make a composite image of two different people from two photos?
I'm using PSE6 and trying to allign, but one photo keeps coming out as a "thumbnail"

Thanks

[kImages]

This is the process that works for me. I use CS3, but I understand that PSE6 is very similar in the align function
1. Open both photos in Editor.
2. Go to the photo that you are going to merge into. Make a copy of the original and name that layer "keeper". (I know a little weird but it keeps me in line ;))
3. Go back to the photo that you want to harvest faces from. This is the photo where Uncle Lou has both eyes open :eek::D
4. Select the entire photo with the Marquee tool. Select the move tool.
5. Move the selected photo onto the "Keeper" photo. It will end up on a layer above "keeper".
6. Select both the moved layer and the "Keeper" layer so that the layers in the palette are both highlighted.
7. Choose Align Layers. Wait for the alignment to happen.
8. Reduce the opacity on the top layer to ensure the faces that you need to exchange have lined up. If you need to, you can manually move that "harvest" layer so the faces you need to replace are the most aligned. Take the opacity back to 100%
9. Apply a layer mask to the top layer (Grant's or Graffi's mask tools work well).
10. Fill the layer mask with black to expose the entire Keeper layer. Choose your brush tool and paint with white on the layer mask to bring back the replacement face.
11. You can merge the layers once you're happy with the exchange.

Clear as mud? :) Maybe this Adobe video will help. http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
Choose Photoshop and the video is Aligning Layers by Content.