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If I take a picture of a room with a person sitting on chair A .. then another of same person sitting on chair B

Without using photoshop or layers.. is there a simple tool or software that will merge the two pictures keeping everything thats the same (the room) and only adding the changed bits?
 
would something like an HDR tool work? it seems like a trick question!

having said that my friends iPHONE did this! he was able to take a group shot, leaving a space for them and get someone else to hold the camera so they could swap out.
i'll have a search
 
DizMatt said:
would something like an HDR tool work? it seems like a trick question!
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perfectly serious question..

tried hdr.. it doesn't do it proper at all.. ghosts the changes..

imagine a picture of a room.. I want the same person sat in two different chairs at the same time.. i could take two pics and cuit paste or use layers to blend them together... however thats an example.. i was thinking of somehting more intricate and wondered if there was software..

seems simple enough concept.. take pic of empty room.. take pics of person in room in diff positions.. merge all together using emty room as canvas and software can see whats different..

not a trcik question at all :)
 
DizMatt said:
Photomerge Group Shots in Photoshop Elements or group shot on iOS seem the most prevalent.
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havent got elements.. whats ios ? I ahve the latest photoshop but itts merge tool is more for stitching it seems :(
 
Very easy to do in Photoshop using layer masks, as you have that why don't you want to use it?

As above with Elements if you get a copy of that, it isn't that expensive.

iOS is iPhone/iPad operating system.
 
somehting like that I want to do.. only way in PS that I know is to take the pic.. make layers.. then rub out top layer to reveal next layer..is that right?
 
yes.... you can "rub out" using the eraser tool...... but this is non-reversable

using a "layer mask" and painting on this mask has the same effect.... (disappearing stuff) but can be later changed if you remove someones arm without realising....
 
overbez said:
yes.... you can "rub out" using the eraser tool...... but this is non-reversable

using a "layer mask" and painting on this mask has the same effect.... (disappearing stuff) but can be later changed if you remove someones arm without realising....
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I need to look that up then.. not somehting I ahve tried.... thanks:)
 
Looks like no dedicated software to just do it.. which suprises me... so ill have to learn new skills in photoishop..


THANK YOU ALL very much for the input.. much appreciated :)
 
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You're welcome. :).

Keep your layer stack small (one or two layers to start with).

It can get confusing when you have many layers active, each with masks, the order in which they are stacked is also significant.

Have fun. :)
 
Graham you beat me to it.
I was going to say.

Yes but don’t rub out, use layer masks.
Take the two shots open both in PS, then with the shift key held down (this keeps the layers aligned.) drag the one layer onto the other.
Then add a mask to the top layer (click the icon at the bottom of the layers pallet it looks like a rectangle with a hole in It.) and with the foreground colour set to black and with a soft round brush paint over the area where the sitter is in the lower image, change the colour to white to paint out any mistakes.
Flatten when done.
It may help to drop the opacity of the top layer to see the second sitter but don’t forget to bring it back up, zoom in to 2/300 percent to check it out.

Rhodese.
 
yeagh graham its the ordering of the stack.. trying to keep subjects seperate and not overlap each other though...

Colin.. thats a good word.. I was googling anything but multiplicity.. gonna try that now :)
 
Have a look at this, about 1/2 way through he starts the Photoshop part.

 
I suspect theres no dedicated software just to do that as photoshop makes it so easy, in the old days it was mostly done in camera, either double exposure (which tends to cause ghosting) or more usually with a filter that masked half the lens (thats how they made the film the parent trap with Hayley Mills playing two parts together)
 
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