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Posted on 28/09/07 10:42:34 PM
karlie
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I am an intermediate skill Photoshop user. I build furniture for sale, and would like to be able to merge photos of tables and chairs taken in my shop with a cluttered background and concrete floor with a room scene that is properly accessorized. I have the fourth edition of the book, but I have Photoshop 6.0. How would I do this in 6.0? problems are getting the table to the proper size and placement in the room scene, and being sure the background shows as one looks through the base of the table. Any suggestions?

Posted on 29/09/07 10:47:51 AM
maiden
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This is difficult mainly due to the perspective, you would have to get a photo of the desired room scene that closely matches the perspective of your cluttered room with the concrete floor and then select and copy the furniture across to the new scene. This would require that you place each item of furniture in the same place as you would have it in the ideal room picture.

If you know of an ideal room you could start by setting up your camera on a tripod and then taking your shot and keeping the camera attached in the same position move your camera & tripod to your cluttered room and take the furniture shot - it's not guaranteed that you will have exactly the correct perspective and in each case the camera position needs to be the same distance away from the back and side walls but you will have a roughly accurate shot that can be manipulated to match.

Alternatively you could try using Photoshop to clean up your Cluttered Room shot and remove the clutter which would make an interesting Friday Challenge.


Posted on 29/09/07 2:55:54 PM
chris berry
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Merging Images
The Book has a chapter on perspectives (the van one is a good tutorial) which tells you to draw lines on a separateb layer using the items in the shot as a start point. You then line up your furniture using the transform tools such as distort and skew to match the angles of the existing furniture. Furthermore, if, say, a whole table won't line up, chop it up into its component parts of legs and top and line each section up separately. I've found this method lets you put the most awkward objects into perspective.

Hope this helps.
Chris



Posted on 01/10/07 10:11:42 PM
karlie
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chris berry wrote:
The Book has a chapter on perspectives (the van one is a good tutorial) which tells you to draw lines on a separateb layer using the items in the shot as a start point. You then line up your furniture using the transform tools such as distort and skew to match the angles of the existing furniture. Furthermore, if, say, a whole table won't line up, chop it up into its component parts of legs and top and line each section up separately. I've found this method lets you put the most awkward objects into perspective.

Hope this helps.

It does help very much. Now I understand why the lines to the vanishing points go on a separate layer. Thanks much.

Karlie
Chris






Posted on 01/10/07 10:12:54 PM
karlie
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Thanks. Of course I will try to keep the distances and camera settings the same, but sometimes it is just not possible.

karlie

maiden wrote:
This is difficult mainly due to the perspective, you would have to get a photo of the desired room scene that closely matches the perspective of your cluttered room with the concrete floor and then select and copy the furniture across to the new scene. This would require that you place each item of furniture in the same place as you would have it in the ideal room picture.

If you know of an ideal room you could start by setting up your camera on a tripod and then taking your shot and keeping the camera attached in the same position move your camera & tripod to your cluttered room and take the furniture shot - it's not guaranteed that you will have exactly the correct perspective and in each case the camera position needs to be the same distance away from the back and side walls but you will have a roughly accurate shot that can be manipulated to match.

Alternatively you could try using Photoshop to clean up your Cluttered Room shot and remove the clutter which would make an interesting Friday Challenge.




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