Combine two photos - the easy way! // Affinity Photo Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- Here is how to combine two photos so the colors match.
In this video:
- Which photos can you combine?
- What to look for when combining photos?
- What light situations and perspectives can you combine?
- Adjusting Colors so the photos match
- Adjusting Contrast and Values
- Creating an Ambient Light Layer
- Easy 3-Step Trick to combine two Photos
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Green mush layer….. Amazing how simple yet effective it is. Thanks again!
I save so many of your tutorials. There are lots of tutorials, but not everyone can teach. I appreciate watching you try different things, while explaining your thought process.
Hey Olivio, nice tutorial!! This is one i'm going to come back a lot!
I made a time table for myself but maybe it can help also other people to navigate trough the video..
0:00 - Which photos can you combine?
- What to look for when combining photos?
- What light situations and perspectives can you combine?
2:50 - make a selection
4:30 - refine the selection
6:45 -Creating an Ambient Light Layer
- Adjusting Colors so the photos match
- Adjusting Contrast and Values
- Easy 3-Step Trick to combine two Photos
You always create wonderful tutorials, Olivio. You take your time and don’t skip details. Much of the time, those two characteristics are the most important. Thank you!
I like your videos. I just bought affinity photo and designer. I am here to stay and watch more videos
Not only the easy way but the fantastic way. Merci beaucoup.
hey cousin how you're doing?
Very nice tutorial, Olivio. To the point and clearly explained. Thank you!
I wish I had seen this video when I started using Affinity. It explains compositing very well indeed. The selection part was very informative. Thank you.
Several comments applaud your outstanding tutorials. I don’t think I can add more....thanks.
Thank you, Joe :)
Nice! Thank you again Olivio, another great lesson. I love your average blur trick.
Many thanks Olivio for this basic but indispensable tutorial for beginners.
This was awesome as I’m focusing on creating composites, thank you!
Very informative as always Olivio, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Thanks Olivio! This is great to have this all in one video with the extra secret sauce!!
Awesome tutorial as always! Thank you so much!
How nice it is.
You make it seems easy.
Thank you for the art 🎨 lesson.
It goes beyond the software.
Have a great Saturday night in Vienna
Thank you Jeff, Happy you like it :)
Thanks Olivio, very clear and useful tutorial !
made easy! Nice one Olivio!
Thank you Olivio for this interesting video!👍Always have plaesure and enrich to watch you
Again, super practical and useful information and pearls.
Excellent tutorial. I like it Olivio.
Thank you for that!
Short and informative as it's should be.
I use the selection and select a building, refine it, mask and apply. I check the mask and the building edges need work. It is a pain to use the brush to edit the masks building edges. Too many mistakes from unsteady hands trying to draw a perfect line along the building edge or portions of it.
I have tried the PEN tool but found it is useless. All I get when I click for the second node is a curves something like a mask pops up above the layers.
What am I doing wrong?
Is there a special setting(s) in the pen tool?
I have searched and watched many videos and I have not found how to draw a perfectly straight line using any tool for a mask. Is there one?
I can not find any other way to communicate and get an answer.
Great videos, easy to follow, good information in each one.
Excellent Olivia, thank you so much.
This was very helpful! Thank you!
As a newbie to affinity photo, I found this very helpful. Thank you
very nice tutorial! Many thanks!
Thanks, Olivio! As usual I learned a few things! :)
Thank you Hoff, happy i could help :)
Interesting approach. Will try that the next time.
amazing.. just amazing
very nice, thank you! :)
I really must try some composite work. It looks like fun just letting your imagination play.
Very good tips.
It's a good job you have a beard because this is pure wizardry!
Great tutorial, does Affinity Photo have a Smart Auto Blend feature like the one in Photoshop?
It would be interesting to see your technique for adding a shadow under the ballerina, like that of the mushrooms.
A 1 or 2 pixel gaussian blur on her might also help make her fit in with the rest of the photo,which is soft.
Hi William, that's a great suggestion. Thank you :)
Your selection brush is smooth and straight but mine is wavy, how can I fix?
Great tip with blur average.. Thanks.
I love this. All she needs is a set of wings to become a true fairy princess.
flic.kr/p/2ieAwxt
Hi Will, yes, that would be a really nice addition :)
Maybe I'm in a newer version, but isn't that just Ramp and Feather in Refine Mask (re: Shrink and Feather)?
For some reason when I try to drag the blurred average background onto the mask, it won't let me release it in the same spot as on your vid. Whatever I do, it gets attached to the mask above or under and it becomes part of the mask layer in some strange way. I then can't control it separately and can't apply a soft light blend to it. It gets applied to the whole mask.
That's really the easy way. I saw a Richard Spezzano tutorial, a little bit more complicated, creating a palette from one image and applying it to the other using gradient map. I don´t know which is more effective.
Compare the results and see which works best for you :)
Hello Olivio; is it possible to stich 2 photo's next to another and you can't see it.
It doesn't work with panorama while the two photo's have not the same informationI want to set a part of the phote on an other place and afterwords it have to becom A4 size.Perhaps is that not possible, but you know so much and perhaps you have an answer and I try it never again. Thank you for an answer.
I read not easy the Englisch language and you answerd it perhaps already and I didn't read it.
excellent
Wieder mal SUPER-hilfreiches -TUTORIAL, Olivio! Übrigens auch dein Kommentar bezüglich ausprobieren und eigene Sinne schärfen. Eine Bitte hätte ich für dieses Jahr: falls du darüber nicht bereits Videos veröffentlicht hast. Könntest du mal zeigen: a) wie man einfach schmale bis breitere Ränder bei einem Bild und b) wie man Lichtspiegelungen im Wasser oder Bäume im Wald-Verlängerung, bzw. (die Bäume; "Märchenwald") mit Affinity Photo erreichen kann. Das wäre sehr nützlich für mich. Beste Grüsse aus dem Nachbarland
Hi great tutorial.However when I got to point where I copied and pasted, the image went into picture but merged rather than as a separate one that could be resized and retouched.Cant see what I was doing different
make sure the layer is (pixel) not (image) when you want to copy just a part of it. Also, there is the option "copy flattened" that merges all layers while doing the copy. maybe you selected that by accident
thank you for asking, this happened to me as well :)
Supposing you were to composite a person into the head-on hallway photo you used for illustration at the 1:00 mark. I understand positioning the person so everything points to the same vanishing point but how would you determine a big (tall) to scale the person so the perspective matches? Photoshop appears to have such a perspective scaling feature but it looks to be guesswork in Affinity Photo.
If there are some visual Markers in the photo that you can use, you could draw some lines to help you with that. and then use a grid jpg with the perspective tool to make it inst a perspective grid :)
Hey Olivio, why don't you create some shadow on the mushroom where ballerina's feet touch them. That would have been more realistic creation.
But thank you so much for the tricks of color adjustments, and the concept of selection of pictures those can be combined
I did that in another video. This video is only focused on blending the images together. But in think I should have also included a shadow for the sake of it :)
The one thing i do miss from Photoshop is the ability to drag and drop selections from one floating window to another, i'm thinking this is not possible in Affinity?
Great tutorial! I have a question - I noticed your images are in a pixel layer, but my images don't open in a pixel layer.
When I try to use average blur on the duplicated background, it doesn't let me click on the filter.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong
right click on the layer and choose "rasterize" to turn it into a pixel layer
@@OlivioSarikas this is great thank you! I didn't even think of that!
Every time I copy and paste an image it brings over the checkerboard pattern behind the ballerina as well Please help
are you sure it's not just the checkerboard that AP shows instead of a background? If you move her, does the chkerboard pattern move too? If yes, you probably took a screenshot that rendered her together with that checkerboard and you need to select her and remove that background.
HELP! How did you import the images into Affinity Photo? I can't figure out how to put the photos into the Layers selection on top of each other for selecting to follow your tutorial!
You can place a image into a open file by either using "file -> place" or by copy&pasting it from another open file.
Fantastic tutorial thank you, but surely she would cast a shadow on the mushrooms, how would you do this?
Yes, but that is not part of this tutorial ;)
I took some photos while on vacation, and I’m not to happy with them. The photos were taken out in the sun light and look orange. Do you have a video on how to try and fix this? I’m a subscriber to your TH-cam channel and love it!
Hi Richard, you could try with either "white balance" or "lens filter" to get the colors to look nice :)
Could you put the Fotos you use in the description so we can follow along with the video?
I'm pretty sure they are both from unsplash.com but i don't have the links anymore
@@OlivioSarikas just a suggestion for future stuff 😊 thanks a lot for your videos
Thank you. If the ballerina is placed like you did (instead of as an embedded document) onto the background and is made bigger or smaller than she was originally, will it effect her to become more pixelated-looking?
not until your rasterize the layer to make it a new resolution - or you make it bigger than the original resolution of the ballerina.
Olivio Sarikas Thank you for replying.
Wieder ein sehr informatives Video, danke Olivio!
Mir kommt die Tänzerin im Endeffekt etwas zu gelblich vor. - Täusche ich mich da? - Kann aber auch mein Monitor sein.
Liebe Grüße aus NÖ
Danke Ernst. Das könnte beides sein. Ich hab mir einen neuen Monitor gekauft, der farblich etwas anders ist, aber noch nicht die Zeit gefunden ihn richtig einzustellen. Zudem ist bei einem Tutorial wo man nebenher redet auch immer etwas die Wahrnehmung abgelenkt. Bei sowas würde ich immer empfehlen 1-2 Tage später nochmal mit frischem Auge zurück zu kommen um zu sehen ob man noch was nachbessern sollte :)
Stumbled on an issue: When I copy and paste a selection and paste it into a new image, the selection shows up, but also the previously cropped part of the copied image also shows up. I chose another image (not cropped) and made a selection from it. When I pasted that onto the new image, it only showed the selection, which is what is wanted.
Why does it paste the previously cropped part of the image as well as the selection? And is there a way around this or do I just have to make sure the image I'm selecting from isn't cropped?
Thanks! :D
make sure the layer you want to copy from is a "pixel" layer, not a "image" layer
@@OlivioSarikas Thanks for the reply Olivio. Yes it is a Pixel layer. I noticed in your vid you selected (grayed out) both the Pixel and Mask layer before you copied. I am using the ipad version of Affinity Photo. I'm trying to figure out how to grey out both layers at the same time, as maybe that is the issue. I have both layers ticked. I made both layers into a single group, but this didn't help.
I will get to the bottom of it. I'm fairly new to all this, but I am learning a lot these days. Thanks! :D
@@flexman22 If you talk about what i do at 6:05 - i'm not selecting and then copying a part of the image. I am creating a mask and then copy the image AND the mask over to the other file. But the full image is still there below the mask. So in that case you indeed need both the image and the mask
I think I've finally figured this out. I'd never realised before/forgot that when you crop a picture and then go to the 'move' tool, the move tool still shows the outline and contains all the data of the complete image so you can move the cropped out parts into the cropped area if you wish (you already know this of course. I'm telling this to myself and maybe to others who may be reading this).
When I copied the pixel layer and mask (that had previously been cropped) into the new image and used the 'move' tool to position the pixel layer and mask into the new image, I could see nothing but the new image around the selected and masked area, however I could also see the cropped out part of the copied pixel layer. Again, this is because I forgot that the 'move' tool still includes all of the image bar the selected and masked areas.
Maybe there's a better way of describing this, but I'm pretty sure you understand how I've gotten confused (I hope 😂 )
I think the reason I got so confused about this is because you were using (and I understand why!) a completely black background for the pixel layer you were copying, plus it hadn't been cropped at all. If the pixel layer you were copying from has been cropped and had a detailed background, then I may have seen the cropped out areas when you were positioning/moving the pixel layer/mask onto the destination image.
Anyway I now understand even more from this. I've progressed more in the last few days than I have in the previous month since finding your channel, so the fact that I took about three hours to figure out what was happening is no big deal. Like I said, I am clearer on this now more than ever. Thanks for replying to me Olivio and thanks for bearing with me. I appreciate it! :D
talk about how to create a digital photo album or a photo book in affinity photo?
Hi Sam, that sounds like a great idea. I will note it down :)
Could you please make a tutorial for how to create realistic looking scars and cuts? I don't mean overly exaggerated 'horror film style' scars and cuts but more naturalistic-looking ones. I'm trying to learn using a youtube Phlearn photoshop tutorial but I'm not understanding how to create something similar in Affinity.
Hi Zebra, that sounds like fun. I have added it to my list :)
The only problem I see is that the dancer is not casting any shadow on the mushroom. That would anchor her to the "floor" and show interaction with the sorrounding.
This is so great, I'm watching it over and over again, thanks for this tutorial. It really helps.
You're very welcome!
You made it really eassy, this is something I can't see in PS
Thank you, Majid :)
i guess that mushroom want in focus
Erster... 😎
yay :)
Great tutorial, does Affinity Photo have a Smart Auto Blend feature like the one in Photoshop?