how to change depth

[dr_sniper]

hello
by using photoshop CS5 i add an object or person to photo but i want to push him to the depth of photo such that i want it to look far from the camera or at the end of the photo i don't know how to explain that but i wish u understand me

[Steve]

Do you understand Layers and Masks and do you know how to match colors, contrast and lighting (exposure)?

[iDad]

Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Scale Tutorial

[dr_sniper]

hello steve
ok i understand layer and mask but i don't know how to match colors,contrast and lighting
thanks iDad, i will see this tutorials and reply to u later

[dr_sniper]

i read about the content aware scale, i understand it but really not completely but i think it not useful for me in my case which i asked about

please steve where are u? tell me more about matching color, contrast and lighting

[iDad]

transform tool will do the job but not seeing what you are trying to do leaves everyone with a guessing came,

[dv8_fx]

iDad's right.... you'll need the transform tool if you want to send the person into the background... lol...

dr_sniper, you've heard of vanishing point in an image.... it's a set of imaginary lines that begins from the foreground and converge at an imaginary point in the distance..... it shows that an object gets smaller proportionally as it goes further back from the foreground of the image.



as my image show the red lines are the imaginary vanishing point... depending where you want to put the person, you have to use the transform tool to shrink the person down to the size proportionate to where you want him in the image. As you can see in the background, the giant gull is obviously out of place....

But it does not end there. This is the part Steve was saying when he mentioned about color, contrast and lighting.... depending on the image you have to adjust the color of the person's clothes, shadows, lighting depending on the time of day or whatever light source there is in the image as well as adjusting the brightness and contrast if it were a night scene ( the further he is away from a light source, the darker he is), as well as other adjustments to get the right look.

In my image, I had to blur the gull on the left . If you were to take a real picture, you would be adjusting your focus on the main subject , the gull in front. This will blur whatever objects or background in the image - the blur depending on your adjustment. The gull in the middle next to the giant is untouched... notice how fake it is..... notice how blurred the 2 birds in the far background are?

These are just principles that I hope can help you with your project..... you might need a little bit of imagination, too.... How will the person look like if he were that far away?.......

[Steve]

Hi DR, the best way to do this is to post the images you want to combine.
You can post the jpg's or if you already started working on it you can post a PSD file.
There is no universal step by step process to follow, each image is unique.

Generally what I would do is to open my original background image.
Then open the 2nd image you want to blend in ACR and see if the tools there like white balance and the sliders in the first panel can get the colors close to the original. You can use the F key to toggle full screen off so you can look at the images side by side.

After you open the 2nd image in PS you can try Image|Adjustments|Match Color I've had limited success with that, it depends on the images.
You can then drag the 2nd image to the background image as a new layer.

After you mask the image and insert where you want it use a Hue/Saturation or Selective Color layer mask clipped to Layer 2 and adjust the colors to match the background layer.

[dr_sniper]

thank DV8_Fx i get some benefits from the vanishing point filter
Mr.steve i understand what u want to say but really it little serve me because the object and the original image nearly have the same exposure
what i want to do exactly: i have an image of a boy and a girl in a small lake, when it was captured the boy was behind the girl about 0.3-0.5 m. I want to put the two person in the same line such that to appear one beside the other and not behind, i will be greatly thankful to anyone who can help me

[Steve]

Steve is my first name, there's no need for Mr.

I want to put the two person in the same line such that to appear one beside the other and not behind, i will be greatly "thankful to anyone who can help me"

Everyone here is "Trying to Help You" the only one not contributing to this conversation is you.

I guess you don't understand the answers and solutions our members have posted here but our members have answered all of your hypothetical questions as accurately as possible without seeing the images you're talking about.

With images the answers and examples we can post may be more understandable to you, without images to work with this post is going noplace.