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Article #128Re: Cutting people out of photos
From: Leo Lichtman
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:14
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:14
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"Joe D" wrote: Yes: with a lot of work. (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ And that's an understatement. If you don't care how convincing the result is, you just select each of the people and copy/paste them over the background. Here's what you will encounter: 1. The lighting on each person must come from the same direction. Good luck with that. 2. Most people have hair, which blends into the background in gentle, semi-transparent ways. Selecting around this is very, very difficult. 3. The people have to look like they belong together. If you don't have the right combination of skill and luck, they will just look pasted on. 4. You will probably find that some of the people have parts missing/ covered up--a hand behind a chair; a foot in the grass, an arm behind someone's back. When you paste these up, you will have the task of generating the missing stuff from scratch or pasting from other sources. Very tough. Have you considered doing a montage instead?
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