Merge Asst

 

This will make sure that you’re able to do a very common Yearbook task:  seamlessly add a piece of one photo to another  e.g. a missing person to a group photo.

 

Make sure you’ve looked through the and understand all the steps.

 

1.    Go to the folder Yearbook/Shared/Assts/Merge asst

2.    Make your own folder there, using your name for the folder name

3.    Choose 2 photos from anywhere in the Shared/Photos or Shared/Pages folders.  One will be the photo you’re copying into, the other a photo you’re going to copy a person from.  To make it more useful and interesting, try to work with photos that relate to pages you’re responsible for.

4.    COPY (leave the originals where they were) the two jpegs into your Assts/Merge folder.

5.    Following the procedure in the Merge Example Instructions, select and copy a person from one photo, and paste into the other.  IMMEDIATELY SAVE AS mymerge.psd.  Don’t save over the original jpegs, because I have to be able to see the unaltered images.

6.    Fit the new person into the original group so it looks like they were always there.  Your work will be evaluated on:

a.    Following the instructions above  i.e. make sure you leave the originals and end up with a new PSD named mymerge.psd

b.    Challenge – how difficult and detailed was the merge?  Was the selection easy or tricky?

c.    Quality – how seamless is the merge?  Is the lighting, scaling, rotation etc. perfect?  Make sure your images are big enough to see lots of detail.

d.    New layer created from background, so your added person can be moved around behind the group, just like the seal and the kids.

e.    Getting it done on time while also working on photography, page design and everything else.  You’d be wise to spend some time outside of class on thisw – after school, for instance.