Replacing Body Parts

How do you match the color in photos before swapping faces...

Retouching & Restoring
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Danny from California, using photoshop 7.0 with windows ME, writes in with:

[Quote:] Hi I'm trying to put a head of one person image to another image muscular body but the color tone of the two different image does not match. I don't know how the match color so the image can look more realistic. Can anyone please help? Thanks

Reply:

Yes, use "Match Color"

Before blending or compositing the photos, open the photo you wish to match. We'll call that the SOURCE image.

Now, open the image that needs correcting. We'll call that one the TARGET image.

In the TARGET image, select:

Image > Adjustments > Match Color (PS CS ONLY)

In the resulting dialog box, go to the bottom under "Image Statistics" and click the SOURCE pull-down. Select the SOURCE image you wish to match.

Click "Preview" button and you should see the change.

Use the "Luminance" slider to adjust too light or too dark

Use the "Color Intensity" slider to increase/decrease saturation.

Decrease the effect of the filter by using the "Fade" slider.

Click OK.

Now you should have a good match to begin putting the photos together.

Take one of the above and call us in the morning.

REPLACING THE HEAD

Now, use the eyes as a guide to sizing the new head correctly, and be alert to where the light source is in the receiving photo. Shadows are a dead giveaway that the image has been edited.

Comments

[polly]

how do I match the color of one part of someones body, to the rest of there body? Like, if there were some weird discoloring and they wanted it to be covered up.

[Kaitlin]

You posted an answer which requires CS, however the original question came from someone with PS7, NOT CS. Is there a way to do this in PS7??

[Gerald]

Hi,

I would like to know how I can replace a bodypart with an object (say a a pen for a finger). I mean how can you make a plausible gradient transition from the one to the other and make it believable that it is actually attached to the body?? Thanks in advance!

[madhu]

hi i want to know theo morphing of two images with pictorial xample. pls hlp me

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