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Behind Window
Adding a person to a photograph is a challenge, what's even more of a challenge is adding a person behind glass. In this tutorial, we'll try to make it simple, by showing the steps that are required to take a photograph of a person and put them behind a window in another photograph.
This tutorial is especially useful for learning to edit people into tricky environments.
Step-by-Step Instructions:
1. Open the two photos that you will be using. The photos will be named as follows:
Person Photo: The photo of the person.
Window Photo: The photo of the window.
2. First cut out the person in the "Person Photo" (for details on how to extract objects or people from their background, see the Cutting-Out tutorial).
3. Copy and paste the person onto the Window Photo.
4. Click Ctrl+T to go into Free Transform mode. Hold down the Shift key while using the corner shape handles to shrink the image so that it is proportionate to the window.
5. Select the Polygonal Lasso Tool.
6. Make sure that the layer with the window is the active layer. Select around the Person.
7. Click Ctrl+C to copy the selected area.
8. Select the layer with the person on it to make it the active layer. Then click Ctrl+V to paste the window selection. This will paste the window into a new layer over the person (temporarily covering them up until Step 9).
9. Change the opacity of the new layer so that you can see the person underneath. Pay attention only to the window area to get an idea of how the person looks from behind the window.
10. Select the layer with the person on it.
11. Select the Eraser tool.
12. Zoom in and erase any part of the person that is showing over the frame of the window.
13. When you have erased over all the frame area. You should now have what looks like a person behind the window.
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