Fire Bird Photography: Edited image 2.

This is the manipulation for my second edit. To keep loading down time on the page I am not going to show images of some of the things I have already done in the first edit. Things like erasing.

1. Open the images you want to use. Got to File-Open.

2.To delete the background on the person I used a different idea because the background was all white I could delete it all in one go not have to go along the outline of the person. To do this go to the Eraser Tool then right click it you will then get 3 options click on Magic Eraser Tool, then click on the white background and it will take it all away leaving only the person left.

3.Its time now to put the person on the other layer, I need to highlight the person so went to the Rectangular Marquee tool, I then selected the person, once that was done I went to the Move Tool and dragged the person on to the Hitler layer this created a new layer for the person and now I have two layers on the Hitler image, one for the Hitler layer the other for the person.

4.Now the person is too big for the other layer so we need to resize him. We go to Edit-Free Transform and a box will come around the person, you then use that to re-size him to the size that you want.

5.Next we need to just clean up around the person as some of the white is still there again use the Eraser Tool and the Zoom Tool to do this.

6.Now if we look at the image of Hitler we can see that it’s a little blurs due to the age and the equipment used when taking the photo, some parts of the detail are not very strong like clothing and faces. Now I need to do this on my image because the image is very crisp and there is a lot of detail. So if you go to Blur Tool (looks like a droplet of water) then right click it and make sure Blur Tool is selected. I then went around all the edges of the person and over any area that was high in detail like the face, gun, hands and clothing. This blurred the image down.

7.I need to turn the person Black and White, I did this by going to Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Black and White. It then turned the whole image black and white.

8.I want to tie the whole photo together as my person still looks out of place so I had to flatten the image so that the next effect would work. I went to Layer-Flatten Image, to do this.

9.I wanted to add some noise to the image to tie it all together and to make my person look like he is meant to be in the image not just placed on, so with the image flattened I went to Filters-Noise-Add Noise. Then a box comes up and you can change the setting to your liking adding as much noise or as little as you want.