Cant work with photoshop..any other software? help!?

Question

I want to make a guy a surprise. We dont have any pictures where we are together. Probably because we live in different countries. ha. SO i wanted to make a fake pic out of two , print it , and send in a frame. I know not very creative but thats a different story. The problem is i have absolute no idea how to use photoshop...it seems to me hard to use. Is there any other program that doesnt require much of skill and patience..thanks

Answer 1

Unfortunately, Photoshop is as easy as any. You won't find anything easier. However, that being said, I can help you a bit with Photoshop.

The tool you'll want to use is the lasso tool. It basically lets you draw the shape you want to select. When I use the lasso tool, I zoom in, select a section of the edge, and then close the shape in small bits. Using the Shift key, I can add more area to that selection. Using the ALT key, I can take bits away from the selection if I go too far off the edge.

Once you have the entirety of one person selected from the picture, do a CTRL+C to copy, switch to the other image, and do a CTRL+V to paste.

Here's the thing; it's VERY hard to make photos seem realistic when you do this, and the problem is lighting. If the lighting is coming from different angles on two people standing directly beside each other, and shadows don't look right, and skin tones look different, etc... it'll be very obvious they're not actually in the picture together. The eye is VERY keen on picking up on really subtle differences, and it's really hard to match up two photos.

But all in all, that's the way to do it. Copy and paste!

Answer 2

A free option to Photoshop is Gimp

http://www.gimp.org/

Gimp tutorials

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

Or you can use photoshop express a really simplified version of photoshop

http://www.photoshop.com/express

Or Paint.Net  Another Free simple Photo editor

http://www.getpaint.net/

Answer 3

photoshop is not hard... you just need to learn it... get some tutorial from internet... www.tutorialized.com is a good website to start... you can just type "photoshop tutorial" in google and you'll get lots of website from there.  

Answer 4

One that's a lot simpler[but has less of the cool features that photosho pdoes] is Photofiltre. Plus, it's free.