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On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:54:36 -0400, Third Time Lucky wrote
(in article <hpaqpu$11nm$1@adenine.netfront.net>):

> 
> "Leo Lichtman" <leo.lichtman@att.net> wrote in message 
> news:0N2dneXre4R0VSXWnZ2dnUVZ_tednZ2d@giganews.com...

>> If you don't care how convincing the result 
>> is, you just select each of the people and copy/paste them over the 
>> background.  
>> 
> Thanks for the advice.
> 
> I just want to put 8 pictures of a person alongside each other. If part of 
> an arm is missing then that ppart of the picture can be hidden behind the 
> next one and so on.
> It's not imperative to have all the body on display just mainly the head and 
> torso.
> I'm sure it can be done and think it has something to do with Layers.
> Also I am sure there are ways of cutting round a person, maybe with the 
> magic wand tool?

As Leo pointed out, you can probably do what you want to do relatively 
easily, since it sounds like you don't actually intend to make the end result 
look like everyone was in the same shot at the same time.

For that result, you're probably on the right track: cut around the people 
using the magic wand or use the quick-selection tool if your version of PE 
has that, and paste onto layers.

You'll do a lot of pixel-level cleanup and your end result will be fine -- 
again, as long as you're okay with it looking like a heavily retouched photo. 


-- 
Joe Dee from NYC