Putting One Photo Inside Another


Putting a photo inside another is a fairly popular collaging technique. But in the technique you're going to do here, you'll realistically put one image inside another, matching the angles of the photo. Here's how it's done:

Step One

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Open the photo that you want to put inside another photo. Press Control-A to put a selection around your entire photo, then press Control-C to copy that photo into memory. Next, open the image that you want the copied photo to appear within.

Step Two

Press the L key until you get the Polygonal Lasso tool from the Toolbox (this tool draws perfectly straight selections; if your object doesn't have straight sides, use another selection tool to create a selection within your image's object). Click the Polygonal Lasso tool once on the bottom-left corner of your object, and then move your cursor up to the top-left corner and click again (a straight line is drawn between your two clicks). Keep clicking at each corner until you have all sides of the object selected (as shown here).

Step Three

Now go under the Edit menu and choose Paste Into Selection, and the photo you had in memory will be pasted into your selection. Then press Control-D to deselect. But there's a problemthe object is likely angled and your photo probably isn't, so it looks fake. Here's how to fix it: Press Control-T to bring up the Free Transform command. Hold the Control key, grab the bottom-left corner point, and move it to where it touches the bottom-left corner of your object. You'll do the same with the other cornersdragging each one to the corresponding corner of your object.

Step Four

When all four corners are lined up, and your photo has been transformed to fit perfectly within the object, press Enter to lock in your changes, and then press Control-D to deselect, which completes the effect.



The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers
The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers
ISBN: 0321384830
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 201
Authors: Scott Kelby

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