Blending in a face in pic

[Jayman]

I been searching help files and trying to figure out how to make images blended or exact name i don't know except call it blending the pic in....but as you see in original color in face and body all matches nicely...i want to add a face over that face of someone else but want it looking like original with the greenish color....can anyone help and also explain how i go about doing this so i know for future and can do this myself for whole new images i want with different backgrounds? thanks

original image...

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/1/31/1731273/b.JPG

image with person i know face over original i want blended in like original....

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/1/31/1731273/b2.jpg

Thanks for any help and info..Jay

Ohh I am using PSE 3..forgot to add that

[vawitt]

If you are a subscriber, Wendy has a tut called "Making a Cat Man" that might address what you want...

[Karin Sue]

I would try:

Feathering the new face a bit so it will blend better.
Select the pixels on the face layer. Set a small feather. Invert and delete.

Use hue and saturation to adust the color.

And/or make a new layer, set the blend mode to color, and with the face selected and the new blank layer active, paint over it with the blue green color. Adjust the opacity of the blend layer.

[Ritage]

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1hd9SwJnEVwtJmc7dDSbPgL5ZmCmJh_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1hd9SwJnEVwtJmc7dDSbPgL5ZmCmJh)

What a lovely little problem.

I selected the face from your second image and put it on the original.
Softened the edges a little by Selection-Modify -Expand 1px and Feather 2 px. (This should be done on first extraction and would then be smoother.)
Expanded just enough to cover a little of the hair and body.
Added a Layer mask and painted the hair and body back in.
Duplicated original and put that layer at the top, set blending mode to color.

This left a few reddish streaks where the two faces did not match exactly and I painted those out with a brush set to color and a little cloning. on separate new layers.

Rita

[douglas m scott]

Jayman,

In the Subscribers area, Corey Barker has a new video tutorial on how to use the Color Replacement Tool (stacked with Brush Tool and Impressionist Brush in PSE3). This should work just fine for you. As Karen Sue stated you probably should feather your Selection so it will blend in better.

1. Open image that has new face added.
2. CTRL+J to duplicate.
3. Select the Eye-dropper Tool and sample from green body.
4. Select the Color Replacement Tool, and from the Mode dropdown choose Color.
5. Now just paint over face. You might have to try different samples of color to get the one that looks right to you.
6. You can also go over to the Layers Pallet and adjust Opacity.
7. And if needed as Karen Sue said you could tweak it with the Hue and Saturation.

doug

[Jayman]

Thanks for the info and help, not a suscriber though..dohh..but after viewing what yall said and how yall did it...i messed around and finally see how yall did it i think..what i came out with myself..looks good?..lol or not..lol thanks again for time and help :)

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/1/31/1731273/krystalgail_pic1.jpg

[Ritage]

Looks great.
Rita

[vawitt]

Looks good! Better fish her out before she rusts, though. :D:D

~Val in cloudy IL

[Daviskw]

Boy Rita was fast and good... but I may as well post since I did it.

I thought maybe making the face a little darker and adding some texture would give a different feel.

I duplicated the background

I then made a selection of the new face and placed it on its own layer... I copied a temp layer of the old face from the first picture and pasted it to the side temporarily… This so I had both faces in view at the same time.

I desaturated the duplicate layer ..the new face layer and the temp face layer.

I then made the new face the active layer and using levels I matched its luminosity to the luminosity of the old face.

When I had them the same I deleted the old face layer and the duplicate layer. This left me with just the background and the desaturated new face layer.

I them opened a blank layer and changed its layer mode to color. I sampled the green color from the body and painted the new face layer.

That gave me the same color green as the original face … but I did not like it…lol… I added some texture and then darkened slightly.

Butch

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k69/Daviskw2004/b2.jpg