Better than life

[andygates]

Is it naughty to photoshop wedding photos to get good ones?  lera took a couple of shots which each had one person looking nice, and a composite of the two looks even better.  It's the photo you'd want to take - maybe not suitable for candid shots, but surely good stuff for a formal event like a wedding?

Here are the originals:





In the first shot, Cat's Mum looks grand and xeeny is picking his nose; in the second, xeeny is all intently shadowed jawline and Cat's mum has lost the matriarchal majesty with a grin.  But no matter, the power of a quick 'shop job makes a composite of the two:




This was really easy, as the door frame gave a strong key for lining up the two components.  Both were imported into Paintshop Pro as additional layers over a transparent background.  On the xeeny layer, delete Cat's mum and the bridesmaid and nothing else.  Now adjust that layer's opacity and line it up with the Cat's mum layer using the door frame as your grid.  Finish off with a little extra deleting of coattails where they don't quite line up, then bring all layers to full opacity and crop to a sensible shape. 

They never looked that good in real life...

Comments

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

*is impressed, particularly by how the small bridesmaid manages to look utterly photogenic throughout*

[andygates.livejournal.com]

That' the Bridesmaid Schtick. It's worth a character point, y'know...