How Obvious?

[manwez]

Here is the before pic (sorry, didn't want to include it and give away who was added in!)




Thank you for all your comments. I took this photo at my friend's mother's 60th, and ended up adding the "young couple" in the back (thanks for that especially - that's my hubby and I!) because we were taking pics and never got in one! I just wasn't sure if I should include it in the disc I'm giving them with pics on it because I thought it was quite obvious. But I think I'll include it after all!

Oh...how I did it. Well I'm not sure on all the technical terms with photoshop - I know how to do a lot with it but only from experimenting. I took a pic of hubby and I from the party and traced around us and cut us out. Then I took the section of the group shot that I wanted to add us to, and I made a duplicate layer of that area (so I could make it look like we were behind the people in that area, if that makes sense). I then copy/pasted us into the shot, placed us where I wanted us to be, then used the eraser tool to get rid of all the extra areas around us (sorry - told you I didn't know all the technical terms!). Then I used the smudge tool around the people around us where you could see the sharp lines from the eraser. It just took time and patience, and doing little bits at a time so I could undo it if it didn't look right and didn't have to start all over again.

[kencaleno]

I reckon these two:

[caillou.]

I would have guessed the young couple in the middle too, but it's not very obvious at all. Maybe if someone sat down and zoomed in on it, then analyzed it for a while, then they'd notice it

[Twinpanther]

Well done. I had noticed your Avatar was from the same image you used to add yourselves to the group shot. As there is more "you" in the avatar I knew it couldn't have been the other way around. Without that bit of info I had no clue. Again, very well done.

Twin

[eNZee]

good job. i couldnt tell at all!!!

[lauderdalems]

The two women on the front row - light color hair.

[abhijith.rao]

Its a clean job, you should go ahead and add it in the CD. Usually what happens with post processing of this type is that, since you have added people into it, you find it very obvious. But, for anyone seeing it for the first time would not realise.

[nickj224]

Add a little blur to them and you'd have a winner... the giveaway is that the focal depth of the image dictates that they should be a little blurry, but they are actually in focus. Everyone else around them is slightly blurred.

[lsanford84]

the couple in the very back- at least that is where I would have added assuming I had the right type of shot.

[manwez]

Originally Posted by abhijith.rao

Its a clean job, you should go ahead and add it in the CD. Usually what happens with post processing of this type is that, since you have added people into it, you find it very obvious. But, for anyone seeing it for the first time would not realise.

That's exactly what happened - it sticks out like a sore thumb to me b/c I know exactly what I did. Posting it here has been very helpful to learn what someone who has never seen the shot before sees.

Originally Posted by nickj224

Add a little blur to them and you'd have a winner... the giveaway is that the focal depth of the image dictates that they should be a little blurry, but they are actually in focus. Everyone else around them is slightly blurred.

I should have added in the "how I did it" part that I did try to blur us a little, and also added some noise, but I see what you mean, could use a bit more blurring.