1. First find photos that are likely to go together. It doesn’t have to be a model – perhaps a different background like a sandy beach or whatever. Open both up in Photoshop Elements.
2. Resize one or the other photo so the relative sizes look okay because you are going to copy and paste the jewelry onto the main picture.
3. Now get rid of the outside background in the jewelry picture. Select the magic tool on the vertical menu. Play around with the tolerance number (top circle) – I used 50- so that when you click with the cursor anywhere on the outside background of the jewelry picture, a “marching ants” border appears. This border will show you the area that will disappear when you hit the delete button.
4. Now try clicking inside the bracelet. If the marching ants border is okay with you, then delete. To clean up the remaining background, switch to lower tolerance numbers – I used 20. Don’t worry if you haven’t got it perfectly removed.
5. Now select the repositioning and rotating tool (circled below)so you can grab the bracelet and put it where you want it to go in as natural a position as possible.
6. The next tool to select is the eraser tool on the vertical menu. Set the brush size (up top) to however wide you need it to be – big to erase large areas, small to tidy up the little ones. You may wish to zoom in to see better.
7. Clean up the little areas with either the magic tool or the eraser.
8. As the jewelry looks a lot sharper than the background, the bangle needs to be blurred. So for the final step, create a new layer (check the help for layer info) and give it a Gaussian blur to soften the bangle itself.
This was a quick effort on my part. So the composite picture is not perfect by any means. But you get the picture (pun intended)! Isn’t technology cool?
ADD JEWELRY | BRACELET
By jalpaji
