Wedding Party Swap

The Request

For this edit, the OP liked the background framing of image 1, which included more of the residence and foliage, and wanted the people in image 2 transferred onto that same background.

The Results

This was a particularly difficult edit that really pushed my skillset! Not only was the lighting significantly different in the two photos, but the ground had a completely different color and look as well, as though perhaps it was still damp from a rain shower. This made it so the feet really did not want to blend well, and had that sort of floating look.

I mitigated this a bit by transferring not just the people, but also the ground onto a separate layer. The angle was completely different, so I had to use warping and distortion to make the paving blocks line up somewhat, and then do some creative blending to make it less obvious. I am pretty happy with how it turned out, but unfortunately, this is one of those many requests that gets abandoned by the OP, and no one was  ever chosen as a winner, so I will never know if it was up to snuff. Either way, I was happy with my work, so I decided to add it to my portfolio.