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Hey, I need some help with Photoshop CS2 pretty quickly. I need to know how to take a part of a picture (say, a face) and put it onto another picture using photoshop. Ive tried the help files, but I really dont know where to start with them!
Major kudos for the person that helps me :) :) :)
First off, you dont even deserve to have photoshop if you cant figure that out..
But secondly: Open both pictures in photohop. Select the portion you want to copy. Press ctrl+c. Go over to the other picture, press CTRL+V. There ya go..
Okay. There are two ways to do this: the easy way, and the precise way.
If you want to do it the easy way, take the lasso (or polygonal lasso) tool and select the area of the image that you want to chop. Hit copy, then hop over to the image that you want to add to and paste it. It should appear on a new layer. To resize the part that you just pasted in to match the other image, hit ctrl + t. This is free-transform. Hold down shift to constrain proportions, then hold your mouse over the corner of the free-transform box and click-drag to resize it. Once it's resized, hit enter (you won't be able to do anything else until you do).
If you want to do it the precise way, use the pen tool (with the 'paths' option selected.. NOT shape layers, which is default... check the three little boxes at the top right of the screen, right below the File/Edit/Image/etc. menus). Use the pen tool to outline the part of the image that you want to chop out (this takes some practice getting used to if you don't already know how). Then, in the path pallet, left-click on the path you just created and select 'make selection'. It should turn from a path into a selection. Then just copy/paste/transform as you would otherwise.
Good luck!
Afghooey, cheers for that, its exactly what I needed to know, youve literally saved my arse!! :)
Glad I could help. :D