Frame By Frame
By Suzette Cook-Mankins
Let’s say, hypothetically of course, that now that Prom is almost three weeks behind us, many of you attendees are in a situation where the date you partnered up with for this traditional get together is no longer in the picture.
On Monday, you picked up your Prom photo package at school. That’s when you started to wish that your prom date was…well…no longer in the picture, literally.
It’s okay. There is hope. With a little addition and subtraction you can extract or add information to any photo and design it around your needs. And if you spent hours shopping, tanning, manicuring and hair styling, you might as well have it your way and break your fabulous self out of that posed photo and be all the supermodel you can be.
Here’s how it works. Find someone who has access to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Elements or any photo editing program and break out the cloning tool. In PhotoShop all you need to do is start stamping new information over the information you’d like to erase. Small brush strokes will help the removal and cloning appear more realistic. You can also try the path approach and just outline yourself (also known as the keeper) and place your self into another background sans your posing partner.
Hypothetical situation #2:
Let’s say you share a job with a doctor who lives half way around the world. You want to arrange an all-staff portrait, but the logistics are just not there. You see, when one doctor returns the other takes off right away. How do you solve this equation?
First you photograph the existing staff together and leave a space for the missing doctor in the back row. Then you photograph that returning doctor in the same setting standing approximately where he would have stood if he had been in the original group shoot. You may want to print out the first image and hold up at the scene of the second shoot to increase your odds of precision.
Then you cut a path around the full staff photo and you move them into the image in front of the solo doctor. And voila! A full staff portrait for your office wall or Christmas cards.
Suzette Cook-Mankins is a 20 year veteran of photojournalism. Send comments, questions, requests to mizdigital.com
Let’s say, hypothetically of course, that now that Prom is almost three weeks behind us, many of you attendees are in a situation where the date you partnered up with for this traditional get together is no longer in the picture.
On Monday, you picked up your Prom photo package at school. That’s when you started to wish that your prom date was…well…no longer in the picture, literally.It’s okay. There is hope. With a little addition and subtraction you can extract or add information to any photo and design it around your needs. And if you spent hours shopping, tanning, manicuring and hair styling, you might as well have it your way and break your fabulous self out of that posed photo and be all the supermodel you can be.
Here’s how it works. Find someone who has access to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Elements or any photo editing program and break out the cloning tool. In PhotoShop all you need to do is start stamping new information over the information you’d like to erase. Small brush strokes will help the removal and cloning appear more realistic. You can also try the path approach and just outline yourself (also known as the keeper) and place your self into another background sans your posing partner.Hypothetical situation #2:
Let’s say you share a job with a doctor who lives half way around the world. You want to arrange an all-staff portrait, but the logistics are just not there. You see, when one doctor returns the other takes off right away. How do you solve this equation?First you photograph the existing staff together and leave a space for the missing doctor in the back row. Then you photograph that returning doctor in the same setting standing approximately where he would have stood if he had been in the original group shoot. You may want to print out the first image and hold up at the scene of the second shoot to increase your odds of precision.
Then you cut a path around the full staff photo and you move them into the image in front of the solo doctor. And voila! A full staff portrait for your office wall or Christmas cards.
Suzette Cook-Mankins is a 20 year veteran of photojournalism. Send comments, questions, requests to mizdigital.com
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