Slightly embarrasing (I blame my sister!)

Confession time. Ok, so my sister and I have a small crush on Wentworth Miller. So she asked me to do a little superimposing project for her. Don't judge us! This is totally just for fun. And, she's divorced so she's allowed.

The photo Amanda gave me to work with was difficult to say the least. That head angle?!!

I think she chose this one for it's steamy romance novel quality.

She actually sent me the challenge before sending me the picture so I decided to play with one of my own pictures first so I could have Wentworth's floating head all ready to go...

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I promise I don't spend my days lusting after "Michael Scofield"! Eric is my one and only hunky monkey. :)

How it's done:

You can't see it very well, but I've outlined his face with the polygonal lasso tool (feather: 1 or 2px). Then, just cut-and-paste and do any necessary editing. I placed and re-sized the floating head by temporarily decreasing the opacity so I could see Eric's face below Wentworth's and tried to match the size and angle.

Unfortunately, it's impossible to re-create the quality and lighting of professional celebrity photos, but I tried to do a few alterations to make it a little less noticeable. For example, my original photo was too warm so I desaturated it a bit...Wentworth's picture was taken in a dark room with artificial lighting so, although I couldn't remove the glow from his face, I did increase the brightness (just on his layer) so it looks a bit more like he's outside. I also had to copy and paste small sections of the door in the area around his head to cover up Eric's hair.

Ok, I'm really spending too much time on this silly post. :)