Illustration/Photo Montage of Anna E

[pellepiano]

Had a new session with Anna E. Here is one image, where I placed her in the Stockholm Opera House where she seemed to fit in. Tried to get some illustrated look.

[JDArt]

Fantastico!

What did you do to get that skin tone?

[pellepiano]

I did some burning and dodging ( and was lucky at this shot too =) ).

[Padre]

Smokin!

[mjklunk]

that is really good. How did you manage to extract her with the stray hairs in place and look so natural with the opera house?

[pellepiano]

There are at least 3 main ways in Photoshop. Extract Filter, using a channel as a base for a layer mask, and Select Range, if the background is just one color ( bluescreen ) that is not featured in the subject. Then you need to change the color te,peratur so both images match ( like Photo Filter in PS ). Even glass can be extracted like this composite.

[mjklunk]

Boy I would love to see how you do that. I understand how you can use the select range with a solid background. I am not familiar how to use the extract on a channel

[pellepiano]

You read wrong =). You use a channel as the base of a layer mask. ( the channel that has the best contrast at the edges of the subject ).

[mjklunk]

oh I see. i'll give that a try

[pellepiano]

Russell Brown has a tut on this on his site.
http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/AdvancedMasking.mov

[Jason Hermann]

Great Job Thanks for the tutorial link aswell. Great tutorial on advanced masking.


Jay