Combine Two Pictures by robertdoom
The camera doesn’t always reproduce faithfully what the eye sees. But Photoshop CS can help make your photos look like the real thing. Just take two pictures instead of one.
Sometimes, I need to take two pictures to tell one story. This often happens when I’m trying to recreate something that my eyes can see easily, but that camera limitations prevent me from reproducing photographically. In part, this is because our eyes see the world differently than cameras do. We can see deep, detailed shadows and brilliant highlights at the same time.
Our cameras, on the other hand, make us choose between capturing one or the other, but not both. This is why many people become frustrated with photography and remark, while showing a disappointing print to someone, “Well, it didn’t look like that when I took the picture.”
The adept digital photographer can overcome these limitations by taking two pictures of the same subject? Exposing one for the light tones and the other for the dark tones? and then combining them in Photoshop 7 or CS. I use this technique all the time to create illustrations that more closely resemble what my eyes observed in real life.
For example, take another look at the image shown in Figure 6-13 (last seen in Chapter 1) of a Flare Buster arm attached to the hot shoe of a digital camera. In real life, my eyes could see detail both in the camera and on the LCD monitor. But in the studio, the image on the monitor faded considerably, because the flash I used to illuminate the black camera wiped out the image on the LCD.
The image on the LCD monitor faded because of the flash
So I turned off the flash and took a second picture, exposing only for the LCD monitor, as shown in.
Second picture exposing only for the LCD monitor
Next we will use the move tool to resize and position each layer to fit on the page. Select the move tool. It’s the first tool in the toolbar. In the options bar, make sure “Auto select layer” and “Show bounding box” are both checked.
Because Layer 2 is active, you should see a dotted line around the painteddesert2 image, with small squares called “handles” on the sides and corners.
Move your cursor to the lower left corner handle, and you’ll see it change to a diagonal, double-pointing arrow. Hold the shift key on your keyboard down, then click with your mouse on that corner handle, and drag it up and to the right to make the photo smaller on the page. Size the photo until it looks like it’s about half the width of the page, then release the mouse button and the shift key.
Note: The reason we held the shift key down, was to constrain the proportions of the photo to the same proportions as the original. Without the shift key held down, you would be able to distort the proportions of the photo.
Double click inside the bounding box to apply the transformation.
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