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JulieAsking

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:31 am    Post subject: Free transform causing problem with masking Reply with quote

Hi - I'm a total newbie and am just starting to work through some exercises to teach myself Photoshop 7. My aim is to remove a person from a source photo to another photo - the destination photo. Once I do the masking routine and the person is ready to move of course I need to scale her. My problem lies in scaling her down with Free Transform. I have tried doing this in both the source and destination photos but the result is the same. I also have both photos at the same resolution (does this really matter?).

What happens is that the box and handles that appears around the person when I employ Free Transform is also transported across to the destination photo - this cannot be seen on a dark background but is definitely noticeable on a light background. If I simply mask and move the person to the destination photo without resizing her there is no problem at all.

Any ideas on why this should be happening anyone?

Thanks - Julie
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JulieAsking

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For anyone else with this problem I was able to solve this by using the masking procedure again on the new photo to paint out the bounding box edges.
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photo-synthesis

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

why not use your mask to create a selection and then layer via copy. simple drag the layer to your new document. i'm not really familiar with your method of masking. I do a ton of manipulation involving moving people from one photo to another, or taking heads with the eyes open and putting in ones with the eyes closed. I use selection tools, extract filter, background eraser, and various other techniques together. I've found that to get a really good selection, you've usually got to use more than one technique.
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