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I confess that I'm a duffer at Photoshop but I would like some help with a specific task please. I have a picture of my wife's niece blowing into a kids bubble holder thing and it's very fetching and my wife wants a print for the wall. However, there isn't a bubble and it really could do with one.

She's against a finely textured wall and there's a space to put a bubble. I don't have a bubble but I can easily enough photograph one against a white(?) background. But what then?

How can I copy the bubble and paste it onto the space convincingly. I know about opening both pics in PS selecting the bubble and putting it onto a new layer and then copying it and pasting it on it's own layer on the other picture but I'd really like to know if there's a way to make it look good. You know with a good selection and the texture of the wall showing through. If not I can probably make the wall texture disappear but I'd need to have the wall colour showing through the bubble.

Anyway, this is something I don't do and I'm puzzled. Any help would be great

Thanks
 
Any help ?
Code: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCXMshvtgqM

Gaz
 
Howsabout...shooting a bubble against a black background - to better retain the reflections & colours on the bubble's surface.

- "Place..." this image onto the little girl photo (it'll be on it's own layer. ('Copy & Paste' or 'drag & drop' will work equally well.)
- Change the bubble layer's blend mode to "Screen", which will drop out all the black.
- Tweak the bubble layer's opacity, tone, contrast to your liking.
You should get a pretty convincing image without the need for complex selections, masking or other less successful palaver.

Cheers,
Tony
 
I have to agree with Dave. Why look for a complex and time consuming solution such as shooting a bubble against a black background and blending with screen (which will work BTW) when you can just go and actually re-shoot the image?? If the niece lives a long away away.. perhaps.. but otherwise re-shoot it.
 
I'm afraid re-shooting isn't an option. She doesn't live anywhere near me and there are particular family reasons why this picture is important. The picture is actually works really well but I'd really like to add the bubble. As I say I'm a duffer at PS. It gives me no joy and I would always prefer to get things right in camera but on this occasion not possible.

Thank you for the advice re inserting the bubble and that's what I'll do :)
 
TonyHall said:
Or there's Google image search...and it's a two minute solution. ;)
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Because it's not your work.... and it's lazy.


wooster said:
I'm afraid re-shooting isn't an option. She doesn't live anywhere near me and there are particular family reasons why this picture is important. The picture is actually works really well but I'd really like to add the bubble. As I say I'm a duffer at PS. It gives me no joy and I would always prefer to get things right in camera but on this occasion not possible.

Thank you for the advice re inserting the bubble and that's what I'll do :)
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Shoot a bubble against a dark background... back light it... then blend it in Photoshop as discussed above. You're running out of options... apart from TonyHall's solution above.. which, if it important to get this done ASAP.... if it's a gift, or something... as crap as it is as a photographic solution.. may be the answer. You'll still probably have to resort to some kind of layer blending in PS though.
 
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You could post the pic on here and request attempts to add bubbles...;)
 
Thanks guys I'm pretty good with it now. I appreciate your help :)
 
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