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Bringing One Picture Into Another


April 8th, 2011
Intended for: beginers

You may have at some point felt the urge to create a collage on your computer, or
otherwise fill up one picture with one or more other pictures. Or maybe you wanted
you could get a laugh out of your friends by for example pasting yourself in front
of the pyramids—but you didn’t know how. You can find out how in the paragraphs
below.

The Place Image function in Zoner Photo Studio is the ideal tool for creating virtual trips to land-
marks worldwide, adding missing family members to a family portrait, or just playing around
with creating your own virtual reality. This function may at first seem like just a toy, but there are
actually a number of serious uses out there for the ability to place all or part of one picture inside
another.

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Two Ways to Add a Picture

To place one picture inside another the simple way, use Edit | Image Overlay (Ctrl+Shift+T). This
opens the Overlay Image window. Use it to select a picture and position it within the picture you
are editing. However, there is also another way to overlay a picture. This other method places the
picture on a floating “layer” atop the main picture, so that it can be moved, resized, etc. before the
placement is finalized.
The route to use this picture placing method is different than for the first one. Click Place Image (I)
on the Main toolbar. This method is especially useful when joining pairs of pictures where one has
a sharp foreground and the other a sharp background, and the goal is to obtain a completely sharp
picture. In a case like this the simplest solution is to overlay one of the pictures atop the other.

Making the Copy

In the Editor, open the picture from which you want to copy a part. Use a selection tool to mark
the area to copy. In our illustration, we have used the magnetic lasso (A). This tool automatically
jumps to contours in the picture (here, the contours of the car). When making a selection, use the
Blur setting on the Options toolbar to slightly blur the borders, so that the pasted material fades
into the non-pasted part. As soon as the selection is ready, copy its contents to the Clipboard
(Ctrl+C).

Quick selection with the magnetic lasso

Switch back to Zoner Photo Studio’s Manager module. Browse to and highlight the target picture.
Open it a new Editor tab (Ctrl+Enter). Activate the Editor’s Place Image (I) tool. Click anywhere in
the picture. This pastes the copied material from the earlier step into a temporary layer, where it
can be manipulated before pasting is finalized.

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Note the small icons in the top left corner of the pasted material.

The most typical edit to pasted material before finalizing is repositioning it. To do so, click it and
drag it to the desired location. Above and to the left of the pasted material are six small icons.
These are buttons. Use them to transform the material in various ways. Their functions are, in
order: free transformation, resize, rotate, skew, deform, and perspective. The icons are not de-
scribed on-screen, but right-clicking within the pasted material does display a command menu
with both these icons and text descriptions. Note that this right-click menu is not displayed if you
have turned off “Show context menu on right-click” in the Editor section of the program Prefer-
ences. The functions are also available from the “Transformation” section of the Options toolbar.

The right-click menu for Place Image

Activate one of the transformations, then click one of the “handles” on the pasted material’s
corners and sides and drag it. Depending on which transformation you are using, the handle’s
movement may be deliberately restricted—for example, the Resize transformation will not let you
distort the image. Drag the handle to apply the desired transformation.

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Adding a Shadow

You can add a shadow to the pasted material; this will sometimes improve how it looks within the
target image. Click Shadow on the Options toolbar, then adjust the shadow settings as needed. All
things being equal, go by the following: leave the shadow color dark, use an Opacity of 40 to 80%,
leave the Mode at Normal, and use a Blur in the range from 18 to 30.

The shadow settings window.

Use the bottom part of the window to control the shadow direction, either by moving the red line
within the circle or by entering a number of degrees. In our example, we have tried to imitate the
shadows of the remaining objects. The last setting controls how far the shadow juts out; we have
used a “cautious” value. Experiment a bit for yourself with this and with the whole process; you’ll
soon be working with pasted pictures like a pro.

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