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I'm no professional, but with my little time on shop/the GIMP my first guess is cut and paste into a new layer and then flatten the image and save. I've moved stuff between photos a lot. See my sig? That is from the background from miniusa becuase I don't have my mini yet. With the GIMP I like to use the path tool to select my cuting areas. I wonder if there is a better way to do this in shop/the GIMP that I have not needed to learn yet. (perhaps using the reveal tool? I don't know)
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yea, if I remember right there's an easier way to do it using the layering mode. I don't think there was ever any masking involved but I could be wrong.
The reason for the layering mode was because the camera never moves so the only thing that changed in the shot was the subject.
After I thought about this a bunch, cutting and pasting is the only way to do it like you were saying. I'll give it a try this weekend. Thanks for the tip.
just make sure to use a tripod, becasue the exact same shooting angle for all the shots is absolutely critical. Once you have your composition figured out, you'd do yourslef a big favor to choose positions that do not overlap one anotehr, so you can just do vertcal stripes (since your composition does not chnage). Makes sense? If you want overlaps, use one of the lasso tools to create your selections, and convert the finished selection into layer masks .... read up layer masks, as they will be your ticket for good overlaps.
you have to be careful with the vertical stripes. It may work or you may see the subtle changes in light and you have to be real carefull about lining things up. you could just shoot the same pic 3 times like said above and then use a lyer mask with a soft brush to eliminate the area of the person on the first layer. Not sure if that makes sense, it's pretty easy to do. I do it all the time when adding things into photos or blurring the background. Works like a charm. I'll duplicate the layer, blur it, ad a mask to the blurred layer and them use the brush to eliminate the blurred subject so the original non blrred subject shows through.
hope this helps
here's an example of how I used it for a blurred background http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5.../hinsmall9.jpg
Got it Emis, thanks.
