matching layers in photoshop, urgent

[Barewolf]

hi all,

ive come to a problem in photoshop, ive taken an image, in this case, a head, and super imposed it onto another picture in photoshop, but the head doesnt match the body, and i cant seem to make the head match the colours of the body

trouble is, ive done this 100 times before and i cant seem to remember how i did it.

ive tried the colour match tool, but it looks really bad

anyone help?

[colin25]

try this

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/head-case.html
or the following
think the feature you're referring to is Match Color, and that's only found in Photoshop 7. But there's a way for you to make skin tones a bit more "matched" in 6. I'll try to explain it here:

I'm going to assume you're using layers to compose the photos. That is, you'll put the guy's new head on the existing body, and the head will be on a separate layer.

Once you get the head the way you want it, and once you have it positioned correctly, merge your layers.

Now, in the tool box, select the eyedropper tool. Click on the skin tone of the head. This gives Photoshop a sample of the color you want to change.

Now go to the Image pulldown menu, select Adjustments, and from there select Replace Color. Make sure you have Selection checked, below the image box.

In the lower right of this dialog box, you should see a swatch of color, and it should be the same color you chose when you clicked on the head with the eyedropper tool.

Where you see Hue, Saturation and Lightness, there are sliders underneath. These let you change the amounts of color and light that make up that color you chose. As you move the sliders, you'll see the color change.

Move the sliders until the color swatch matches the skin tone of the guy's body in your picture.

By the way, the Fuzziness part of this dialog box refers to how closely you want Photoshop to "define" the color. In other words, the higher the number you put in this box, the more Photoshop will look around for pixels of the color you chose.

Also bear in mind that when you use Replace Color, it's an overall effect. That is, if there are pixels of the skin tone color in another part of the image -- like in clothing or the background -- those will be changed, too. So keep an eye out for what you're changing, and make sure you don't accidentally change something you didn't want to change!

[Barewolf]

i cant seem to get it right, somethings gone very wrong, let me post the psd and see if you can get any joy, i dont understand whats gone wrong, its normally very easy.

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my problem psd, should work in earlier versions

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ok i cant seem to post the psd file either lol

[Barewolf]

psd is too large but did a jpeg

[Barewolf]

i basically need to take the face on the left and put that where van dams face is and blend it to match the body but it wont work

[Kymmy]

Here's a quick 5 minute job (sorry all the time I have to spare )

[colin25]

impressive...better than the real one, i never liked van damme

[Barewolf]

thanks kymmy