Pixlr and I meet again

After some disappointing results, I decided to give Pixlr another try. When I say disappointing results, I mean I'm disappointed with myself and my lack of skills as opposed to the program. I want to perfect the lasso tool, after all, I think that 99% of the fun of photo editing is in super imposing images. So, when I saw this picture of my friends, I knew I had found the perfect opportunity.

Who invited him?

Jess

This is a great picture of my friends who were there that night, except for Jess, whose spot is being filled by this gentleman. We all know how hard it can be to find a picture where everyone looks good but unfortunately this uninvited guest has ruined an otherwise great picture.

After several frustrating drafts, I realized the key to using the lasso tool is to create your own image. For the Katniss and Prim picture, I superimposed my friends faces onto the picture of Katniss and Prim that already existed. For this picture, I used the Marquee tool (on the top left of the tool bar, below crop) to copy and paste the original picture of my friends into a new image. This gave me more control over the layers, as I realized the key would be putting the image of Jess on a layer behind that of my friends, so it looked like she was behind them. In order to do that I went to the layer tool bar and dragged layer 1 (my friends) over the background (Jess).

I also played with the eraser tool a lot more in this picture so that I could fix the mistakes I made with the lasso tool and also make Jess fit better in between Molly and Vanessa. I think that besides the different in color (the picture of my friends was taken on an iPhone where as Jess' was from a camera) this looks pretty good! Definitely an improvement over my first attempt. Voila here are the results: