Is human cloning illegal?

[OneWayMule]

Too late... :giggle

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http://onewaymule.smugmug.com/photos/129299509-M.jpg

Its a little off but was fun anyway.
Will try grander things later :rambo

[Owen]

I don't get it? :dunno

[OneWayMule]

The pic. in the middle is a clone of the other 2...

Does it look too fake or looks like 3 different people?

[HiSPL]

Holy cow.... Really?

I thought they were all three sisters! Good PS'ing...:clap

[OneWayMule]

Its easier then you'd think... should try it!

[mmroden]

Reminds me of an article in this month's American Scientist. The author combined a whole bunch of faces to make a 'composite' face of what people might look like in a few thousand years if we all interbred. Neat stuff.

[ShepsMom]

Ok, you've got to teach my how to do this, it's quiet amazing!

[urbanaries]

Ok, you've got to teach my how to do this, it's quiet amazing!

Ok I get it...the eyes and nose are from the first girl, and the mouth and hair/face shape are from the 2nd girl?

Did you copy and paste a selection with some feathering to acheive this? I've tried it with group shots a few times...snagged better smiles from one shot and pasted to another. Not as impressive results as this though! nice job.

[Skippy]

Too late... :giggle

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Its a little off but was fun anyway.
Will try grander things later :rambo

That is very clever, they do look like three different people.
I thought probably all sisters? that was my first thought. :scratch

That's so smart ....... Skippy
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[OneWayMule]

Shoot I lost my post after writing it all up!!

Anyway, restart………..


SHOOTING TIPS TO CONSIDER:

- Find subject with similar skin tones
- Shoot in same lighting condition
- Have them look at the camera with same angle (I learned this after the fact)
- Keep camera setting the same (i.e. focal length)
- Keep plain background (that frame gave me trouble)


POST WORK:
My workflow is a bit sloppy but hopefully I can explain myself.

Assuming the skins match (very important before you begin)….
I started with a background with one picture of each subject on each side. In the middle was blank space where my cloned human would be. I selected the girl on the left and pasted her on a new layer. So it looked like Girl 1, Girl 1, and Girl 2.

I copied the mouth of Girl 2 and pasted it on a NEW LAYER (this gives the freedom to move, rotate, transform, etc). At this point, it looks like a cut and paste job so I added a mask and with a soft brush began to erase the edges.

****ALWAYS PASTE MORE THEN WHAT YOU MAY NEED***
Cos you can always erase or mask it but not getting enough the first time will mean starting over with that selection.

So my mouth blended well and I began cloning the neck down of Girl 2 on my middle shot. It got very sloppy here! I had to blend the head and body of 2 separate people that seemed impossible but worked out okay. Then I copied the hair of Girl 2 and pasted it. One again, adding a layer mask and using a black brush to blend the 2.

I was in the ballpark after this but there’s a lot of cleaning up of the hair and other details.

I cant emphasize how much I switched back and forth from Black <> White brush to help me blend.
Cut+Paste, Clone and Masking… three thing I used extensively.

All in all, I’m satisfied with the outcome but I did make mistakes along the way.
But that’s the only way to learn so go try it!


PS – Stamping is amazing [Command + Option + Shift + E]
It’ll combine all your work in one, easy to manage layer!
I just discovered it ?