how to get lighting just right

[natalie4real]

Im trying to shop someones head on another persons body and no matter how hard I try I cannot get the lighting to match. Now I have taken multiple shots and stil it is almost impossible to do so. Any experts out there wanna let me know how I can achieve this it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a bunch all.

Luv ya ... Natalie

[pimped3point3]

Is it that you can't get the color of the skin to match, or the shading of the body parts to match? If it's the color, just mess around with the brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. If it's the shading, try playing around with the lighting effects filter.



Last edited by pimped3point3 at Dec 19 2002, 06:01 PM

[natalie4real]

Its mainly the skin matching !

[MRWILDE]

That Natalie is almost impossible. There are still a few things that photoshop cannot do. The only real easy way to do it is to find someone with the closest skin tone match that is in almost the same lighting condition. Then work from there.

[CaPPyD]

What are you doin? Dropping your head onto someone else's body?

[-GS-]

have you tried playing with the levels option and the variation option........

when your dropping the head onto someone else you press Ctrl-L for levels and to get to variations go to......... Image>Adjust>Variations and it will be the last one there