Picture editing help

[Qacer]

Hello all,

Please refer to this link to see the picture:
Polaroid

Basically, I want to replace an existing polaroid picture with another one, but I don't know how to match it exactly.

Any tips?

Thanks!

 

[WannaFly]

i dont know how in paint shop, but i threw this together in photoshop:

http://www.exilum.com/pics/atot/polariod.jpg

 

[Qacer]

Nice.

Can you tell me what steps you used in Photoshop?
Maybe I can find something similar in Paint Shop Pro.

Thanks!

 

[WannaFly]

Used the lasso tool to mark the edges of the current picture, then resized the dog, rotated, put into position and inverted my selection, deleted, then took all saturation out of the original(there were some artifacts left), then used the blur tool to soften the edges of the dog picture

 

[ZOXXO]

I went a step further and used the shear filter to more closely follow the curvature of the Polaroid pic.

Resulting pic.

 

[Qacer]

Cool thanks, all! 🙂

As for the Shear Filter, is this for Photoshop? What version? I see a shear deformation effect for PaintShop, but it doesn't let me move the image anchor points one by one to follow the curvature.

 

[ZOXXO]

Originally posted by: Qacer
Cool thanks, all! 🙂

As for the Shear Filter, is this for Photoshop? What version? I see a shear deformation effect for PaintShop, but it doesn't let me move the image anchor points one by one to follow the curvature.

Photoshop CS but the shear filter should be in older versions as well.

I drug the dog onto a new layer in the poloroid pic, resized using free transform, rotated 90 degree, used shear to approximate curvature, rotated back 90 degree then adjusted the size again using free transform.

Also adjusted levels to brighten the dog image after esizing.

 

[Qacer]

Ahh... I see.. I was just at my brother's computer using Photoshop 7. I didn't quite figure out the Shear filter, yet. I'll play around it some more. Thanks!