Elvis has a new job

Hello !

For this post I’ll take a picture with Elvis and one with a man at work. So I’ll put Elvis to do something else besides singing : )
This is my picture with Elvis :
and this is the man willing to give him his job :

Start with Elvis. Maybe you’ll choose another picture of him or with another man. But be sure you’ll notice all the details that were not supposed to be there, like you see in this image. But this is an old picture, anyway.
If your image looks fine take the Lasso tool and select his head and neck. The neck helps you to blend the two images better. Copy the selection.

Open the other image and paste the selection you’ve just made. Because the image with the man is in grayscale automatically the selection will be transformed in grayscale.
Turn off layer visibility for Elvis’s head, in order to prepare the image behind.

Take the Clone stamp tool and start to clone the areas next to the man’s head so that when you’ll put Elvis's head there you wouldn’t see the other man’s ear, for example.

Turn on the layer visibility for Elvis and place his head above the man’s head. Now apply a layer mask and with brush tool start masking around what you don’t need in the picture.

If you look at the picture behind you notice that the light enters in the room from the left side of his face. So Elvis can’t have shadow’s of light next to his nose and his eye (right eye) and we have to put some light on his left side of the head.

So take the Clone tool and erase the shadows. Then go to Filter – Render – Lighting effects. Make sure you have the layer that contains the head selected and not the mask.

Position the light where you think is best and then click OK. If you don’t like the result undo the filter and try it again.

Use the clone tool again to erase the light from the top of the head.

So ..that’s it. Have fun !

I forgot to mention. I take my picture from SXC . You just have to create an account there and you’ll have free pictures at high resolution.