(Background source)
(Shot to be edited)
(Final image)
This post is explaining how I took 2 shots from this soccer shoot and photoshoped the moon to another spot dropped in the background and fixed the motion on the soccer ball in under 20 mins.
Step 1. Open your main image your going to be working with this one happens to be the one with the ball in the air.
Step 2. Create a new layer (Command + N) do your basic retouching with your clone stamp tool and healing tool.
Step 3. Select the moon with the marquee tool and hit (Command + J) to through it onto its own layer then select your move tool (V) and move it where you would like and when I moved it to a different spot the excess sky around the moon didn’t match the new sky area I wanted to put it so I created a mask and with a soft brush just blended it into the new sky. *Don’t forget to retouch out your old moon or your have two this is earth remember)
Step 4. In this step we are working on fixing the ball. As it is now in the original image it looks like its almost coming towards him because I didn’t have my flash on second curtain sync. So when I did my 1/15th of a second it was frozen at the being of the exposure then got burned in with the ambient exposure. Anyways select the ball through it on a new layer. Select (Command + J) this new ball on its own layer is going to be our original ball. Now select the ball in the original image and through a motion blur on it in the right direction. Then with a mask blend it together. (*I also had to do a little clone stamp on the top of the original ball image to get rid of that motion blur so it only had the one when I was done)
Step 5. Now for the background open your background image select just what you need then (Command + X) to cut it out (Command + W) to close old document. Then go to your working document and (Command + V) to paste. Place it where you want it with the move tool and what I had to do was basically clone stamp him out of the background shot and needless to say it look horrible so I also used the patch tool to blend the blochy spots. Now comes the magic back in the day I would have selected him and masked him and it would have took FOREVER! But instead just switch your blending mode on your layer from normal to Lighten and BAM! Everything light (him) will stay and everything darker then gray will be replaced basically.
And then I cropped it and walla.
(*Props to you if you read this whole thing! Hope it helped)
Tags: Gage Thompson, Photoshop, Post-Production, Soccer, Tutorial
