Add a person to a group photo

[dwiel]

I have a group photo of my family, all twenty something of them, except for one grandaughter. I have tried adding her to the photo with less than good results. The only place I can put her is between several others. She has to appear in font of one row and behind another row.

Any suggestions, I have searched the tutorials but have not found one dealing with that specific task.

Bob Dwiel

[Wendy]

Hi Bob ..

Two ways you can do this ..

add her into the photograph, ut her in the right place and then erase any part of her that would be behind the front row.

Or a method I prefer ..

Make a selection of the people you want t place her behind and copy and paste it to a new layer ,.. then position her between the two layers :)

Wendy

[dwiel]

Thanks Wendy, I'll give it a try.

Bob

[dwiel]

Wendy, tried your second method of separating the people but that was too difficult to separate them.

I went back to the 2 layer and erase method and spent more time erasing very carefully and got a result that was ok but not as good as I would like.

Guess I need a lot more practice with PE7. I am a new user and enjoy learning.

Thanks for you suggestions.


Bob

[Wendy]

Hi Bob ...

It really is all to do with practice ... and selections do get easier the more you do. Try this:

Select the lasso tool (just the orginary one)
Set it to "Add to" (those little boxes up at the top of the screen ..hover your cursor above then and you will see the one I mean)
Zoom in very close using the zoom tool (it looks like a little magnifying glass) and start your selection.
Just go round the edge a little at a time and then do a sort of circle inside the person to join up to the beginning of the selection.
Now you can pause for a moment before continuing ..
To continue just start again and you will see that you are adding to the selection.

When you have gone all the way round stop and check your selection. Make sure that all of the person is selected.
If you have parts that need a little more adding in the use "Add to Selection" ... but if you need to remove a little then change over to "Subtract from Selection". Do this until you are happy with it.

Now do Edit>Copy then Edit>Paste
and you will have the person on their own layer.

Wendy :)

[JAW]

Hi Bob,

Welcome to Elements Village. :D
I agree with Wendy's solution to your problem. I think it is the way to go. Just take your time doing the edges. You'll be fine. Again, welcome aboard.

Best of Luck, :D