Friends daughter Help with cut & paste

[kiwimuzza]

Been trying to get my friends daughter in a nice pose at 10 months its almost impossible:) Caught a candid pic of her and have cut and pasted it to a portrait background. Can some one tell me how to make it better or what i should be doing differently
Cheers

[rabidcow]

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/AdvancedMasking.mov

This is an awsome quicktime video that explains how to cut foreground subjects from backgrounds.

Other than that, my eyes tell me that this image is nearly 1 and 1/3 stops underexposed.

I hope it works out for you!

[christyjo2]

Hey..i dont have any answers for you..sorry..but do want to know..where do you get the digital backgrounds to put behind her? Know where i could get some?

[kiwimuzza]

Hi Christyjo,
Background is home made using an old roller blind i scored from an old house tha was due for demolition and coloured using some old tins of paint from my garage.
Total cost the 2 beers i had while making it

[christyjo2]

LOL..i see

[JSimonian]

I gave your pic a quick go in PS. I duplicataed the layer, went to Image-Adjustments-Exposure then slid the exposure slider over to the right to +1.00. Then I created a mask and darkened the background to where it was before. Then just sharpened a bit and saved for web.

If someone spent a bit more time, it would look better than my version.

Great job in switching out the background!

J.Simonian

[kiwimuzza]

Thanks I will have to have a play.
A bit of patience wouldn't go a miss either lol