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Make a body swap

Make a body swap - Photoshop Tutorial

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Make a body swap

- [Instructor] Every photographer knows, the more people you have in a group shot, the more chance there is for a blink or a funny expression. I'll show how you to take care of that in Photoshop. I loved working with these guys. I love the expression on his face here. And I love his expression in this photo. I'm going to combine the two photographs into one. First, I adjusted the tone and color of both images in Lightroom, then I opened them in Photoshop. I changed the tools settings to photography, and I made it so I could see both at once. Now open the marquee tool. Draw it around the smiling man. You want to make sure you have plenty of room outside of his face, so you can adjust it later if you need to. Copy... And then paste into the other photo. Set the opacity to around 50, so you can see through the layer into the layer below. Click the move tool and start putting it in position. Now we can get rid of this other…

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