I’m looking for someone to help do a Photoshop retouch of 2 photos, to merge them into 1, but I don’t even know what you would call that. I found plenty of “professional retouching services” but none that have that kind of expertise. They all seem to know how to add some blur and take away the simple flaws. I’m looking for something more complex, such as putting 2 photos together and making it actually look like 1.
If any of you here know how to do it, let me know. Or please post some links/contacts.
I’d really appreciate it. By the way, I’m not looking to learn this myself, don’t really have time to. But at the same time, I’m not exactly looking to hire anyone here (unless someone here is really that skilled at Photoshop), otherwise I would have posted in the Job Offers forum.
I’m looking for someone to help do a Photoshop retouch of 2 photos, to merge them into 1, but I don’t even know what you would call that. I found plenty of “professional retouching services” but none that have that kind of expertise. They all seem to know how to add some blur and take away the simple flaws. I’m looking for something more complex, such as putting 2 photos together and making it actually look like 1.
If any of you here know how to do it, let me know. Or please post some links/contacts.
I’d really appreciate it. By the way, I’m not looking to learn this myself, don’t really have time to. But at the same time, I’m not exactly looking to hire anyone here (unless someone here is really that skilled at Photoshop), otherwise I would have posted in the Job Offers forum.
Thanks for any info/insight!
-Hooman[/QUOTE]
Ask on the Drawing and Design part of the forums, you will get better feedback.
This can be fairly easy, or very tedious, depending on the photos and the type of blending you want.
For example, extracting detailed shapes against complex backgrounds is difficult and time-consuming.
I do this kind of thing frequently.
Post the two photos and a description of the desired composite result.
[quote=snickelfritz;2355142]This can be fairly easy, or very tedious, depending on the photos and the type of blending you want.
For example, extracting detailed shapes against complex backgrounds is difficult and time-consuming.
I do this kind of thing frequently.
Post the two photos and a description of the desired composite result.[/quote]
Okay, so the dilemma is that in the photos, the girl on the right looks better sitting down, while the other girl looks better standing up. The guy who retouched my other photos said that combining the two would look ‘off’ or weird, so he wouldn’t do it. I think it also has to do with the fact that the stairs/angles are different in the photos.
If you could do it, this is kind of for a big project (hence also the watermarks), so if you’re up for it, I’d need some top skill work. Don’t worry about the actual retouching of the girls…these are both raw photos…that would be done by my retouching guy. These are also low-res samples…I have much higher quality PSD files.
Anyway, let me know if you think it’s doable or if you could refer anyone, or any sites that could do it, or what you would even call this type of thing.
This is a little beyond the kind of freebee help you’re likely to find in a forum.
The main issue I see is the extensive repairs/cloning required for the steps and walls and the requirement that this be a seamless HQ job; the extraction of the figures looks fairly straightforward though. I see no special problem with the disparity between the angles in the shots.
An ideal solution would be to take another photo of the stairs under the same lighting conditions.
This would allow for both girls to be composited with no repairs or cloning on the walls and steps.
If I had taken these photos, I would have taken at least a half-dozen shots of the stairs while setting up the camera…(maybe your photographer did this as well)
[quote=snickelfritz;2355250]This is a little beyond the kind of freebee help you’re likely to find in a forum.
The main issue I see is the extensive repairs/cloning required for the steps and walls and the requirement that this be a seamless HQ job; the extraction of the figures looks fairly straightforward though. I see no special problem with the disparity between the angles in the shots.
An ideal solution would be to take another photo of the stairs under the same lighting conditions.
This would allow for both girls to be composited with no repairs or cloning on the walls and steps.
If I had taken these photos, I would have taken at least a half-dozen shots of the stairs while setting up the camera…(maybe your photographer did this as well)[/quote]
Hmm, thanks for the insight, I will try to find someone who can do that on the walls/stairs. Yeah, unfortunately he didn’t take any extras of just the setting, but that’s a great point, thanks for letting me know about that, I’ll definitely keep it in mind for the other photos later.
