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A friend was shooting a wedding when their camera got knocked over and she lost a whole roll of film and many, very important shots. One in particular was one of the most important wedding shots of the bride and groom together, at the alter, with her gown all spread out across the floor. Probably the one photo that most couples end up blowing up and sending to all their friends and family.
I scanned a picture of the groom all by himself on the alter. Although it was a pretty good picture of him he wasn't smiling so I cut his face from another shot and paste it on the other one. I then had to brush out a banister that was in the way, thus exposing what would be the bottom of the candelabra. I was able to cut it out of another picture and repaired that.
I took the best shot I could find of the bride with her gown, cut her out and paste her on the new image with the groom. I had to adjust her height to match and even got the grooms hand around her waste. I had to brush out a little piece of the existing banister from her gown.
Now came another challenge. The bottom of her gown in that picture spread out and extended down further than I could accomplish in the new shot. I was able to cut off the bottom of her gown and flattened it up. I then reattached it and blended everything together. Since all of these pictures were all taken at various distances I actually had to blur certain parts to make them blend in with the others.
Now look very close at the picture and notice that I didn't take the extra time to do anything about the groom's shadow on the floor which proves that the bride wasn't really in that particular picture.
The couple was very happy with the end results and bought quite a few 8X10 prints to send to friends and family.