Levitating People - CVHS Photography

Levitating People

Photography Section

Photography Directions

Stack stools, chairs or any other object that is movable and have your person get into a position that makes them looks like they are flying, swimming, etc.
Take your photo

3. DO NOT MOVE!

4. ONLY have the person and all the object move out of the photo

5. Take another photo once they have moved out of the area.

Photoshop Section

1.Open both images in photoshop. Drag the person photo on top

of the non-person photo.

2. Click the shift key, hold it down and select both the background layer and the layer above

3. Go to Edit- Auto Align Layers

4. Click Auto. Your images will now start to align

5. Click on the crop tool and cut out the area that is extra

6. Add a layer mask to the top layer

7. Make sure the top color is black on the color pallet. Make sure you have a soft (not hard) brush picked

8. Begin to paint out the everything but your person and/or objects
9. Zoom in on your subject closely to be sure you are removing all of the object

10. If you paint off to much of an area, just switch your brush to white and paint it back in.

11. When you are completely done FLATTEN YOUR IMAGE.

12. The area where your person layed on the chair will look flattened. To fix this go to Filter-Liquify

13. Drag the parts of the body that are flatten down to bring back the shape. Don’t pull it down to much or it will look fake.

14. You may have a few areas that were behind the chair when you took the photo. Use the clone stamp tool to bring them back (see under his right arm)

Adding a Shadow: Extra

1. Right click on your background layer and duplicate the layer
2. Using the burn tool (make sure it’s on soft not hard) begin to burn a shadow below your person.

3. DO NOT over darken the area. Shadows are grayish not black.
4. Pull down the opacity on the layers pallet if the shadow is to dark.

What not to do:

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