From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Photography
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Swapping heads in a family portrait - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Photography
Swapping heads in a family portrait
- One of the most difficult things to do when photographing a group of people is to get them to all look their best in a single photograph. In this example, I'll start in Bridge and tap the spacebar. And we can see that in this photograph, everyone looks great except for the daughter of my friend. And when I use the right arrow key, we move to the next image, she looks great, but then we have some issue with some of the kids in the photograph. So let me tap escape in order to get out of the preview in Bridge. I'll select both of the images, and then choose Tools, Photoshop, and then Load Files into Photoshop Layers. That tells Bridge to hand off both of those images and combine them into a single multi layer document. Now if I toggle the visibility off of the layer on top, we can see that the zoom on the camera has changed between exposures. So I need to align both of these layers. So in the layers panel, I will…
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