Blending Foreground with Background

[Jenjill123]

I am having trouble blending this photo into the background to make it more realistic.

Thank you!

 

[Damien Symonds]

Oh, difficult one.

May I see the couple photo with its original background?

[Jenjill123]

Sure !

[Damien Symonds]

Is it a raw file?

[Jenjill123]

Sure !

[Jenjill123]

No it is  psd so I guess that ends that, unless it can e converted somehow!

 

[Jenjill123]

I converted it - is this ok?

 

[Damien Symonds]

No, sorry, I meant the original photo of the couple.  Was it a shot in raw format?

[Jenjill123]

Unfortunately no. (Phone, I think).

[Jenjill123]

I guess lesson  learned! 

[Damien Symonds]

Hey, don't give up so easily!  We can still do this.

Which version of Photoshop do you have?

[Jenjill123]

CC20

No rush to answer backs I have to go out (darn it).

 

[Damien Symonds]

Great!  Then the first step when you open the couple photo in Photoshop should be to go to Filter>Camera Raw, and do your "raw" processing there.  The file won't respond as well as if it was an actual raw file of course, but you can fix the white balance and make some other adjustments.  Then post it for me.

[Damien Symonds]

By the way, what are the pixel dimensions of the couple photo?

[Jenjill123]

Here is a screen shot as to where I am. It's not letting me open filter/camera raw. 

Sorry to be so frustrating! 

[Damien Symonds]

Ah, don't worry, that's easy peasy.  You just need to go to Edit>Convert to profile.

Choose sRGBiec blah blah blah as the Destination space.

THEN you should be able to do the Camera Raw filter.

[Jenjill123]

Fantastic! Now to the editing and I will get back to  you in the morning! I would have never figured that out myself!

[Jenjill123]

Here we go! I have saved it as png. Is that correct?

Maybe their faces are little too yellow?

 

[Damien Symonds]

Crikey, this looks terrible.  What did you do?

[Jenjill123]

Haha, I'll have another go!! I did auto on raw filter and they faded into nothing! So I messed around too much!😆

[Jenjill123]

Here we go again! Thanks for your patience! 🙄

[Damien Symonds]

No, I promise, the Camera Raw filter allows you to edit this jpeg photo in roughly the same way you'd edit a raw file.  Follow the procedure from the Raw Class.

[Jenjill123]

OK. I have signed up for the RAW Class. Do you mind if I continue with this one still?

[Damien Symonds]

Okay ...

[Jenjill123]

Here we go. Photo edited in RAW.