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About How Obvious Is This?


StarkRavingSane

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So with more masks than an Italian carnival, I tried to put together this:

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One of the people here was not in the original.

Can you tell which one and about how obvious is it?
Any tips for making it less so?

Many Thanks!
-Meg
 
I agree with ibis. Good try though.

My critique and suggestions: The lighting on the added girl is from a different direction. Her skin tone and texture (texture especially) is not the same. There are too many halos around the other people so you need to do mask refinement or paint around the edges (or make a selection with a lasso or pen tool and fill with black) and I would feather some of the edges slightly to diminish the hard transition.

If you truly want to continue to work on this you will likely need to dodge and clone away the shadows. Do this on separate layers. Make a layer, fill with 50% grey, set to overlay or soft light, then dodge starting at a low exposure. Make a layer and sample all layers to clone away more shadows. Then you can make a layer and add shadow effects. It's a lot of work and you have already done a lot it sounds like.

You're going to also have to make some subtle changes to the girl and she is brighter overall than the others, especially the leftmost girl who she is visually paired with. Clip an adjustment layer and play with levels or curves and see what you can come up with.

Another option would be to give us your originals in a psd and let us see what we can come up with and share those results with you. I'm on my way to work, but I could give it a shot later (could be tomorrow my time).

Sorry if this is too much, lol. But you asked!!
 
main problem is the girls hair which makes it more obvious that you cut her out of another photo
 
ibcare: I tried a few different things to try and get some shadows going, but I'll definitely have to give your method a shot. Practice makes perfect, right?

sprucemagoo and dataflow (in no actual order): Ack, hair! I definitely need to fix that, you're right. Grr.
 
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