This latest project is all about being retro, by putting different people into photos that they weren't originally in, and trying to make it look as real as possible.
In this photo, as in most of my edited photos, I started with two pictures and dropped the face of one person in the first photo into the second photo. I then scaled the image of the head to the proper size to match the head of whoever was in the second photo and moved the image of the head over the head of someone in the second photo. I erased the background to the image of the head, leaving just the head, and made that layer transparent so that I could see how close the sizes of the two heads were. After that, I made the image of the head the same type of black and white as the photo it was being dropped into by making it, first, black and white, and, second, changing the tint until it matched the quality of the photo. I would then "add noise" through the noise filter option, matching the grainy quality of the original photo. I then made sure everything was exactly where it should be placement-wise, and started blurring the edges of where the head overlapped the whole picture. Once I finished that, I would open up another version of the second photo and cut out the shirt or the hair of the person whose head I was replacing and drop that into the edited photo. I then placed this cutout exactly where it was in the original photo, covering up any remnants of the head layer, leaving the photo look like the head had always been there, and had the same shirt on or the same hair or whatever it was. Lastly, I looked everything over to see how closely I had matched everything in the two photos, and change anything I felt needed to be fixed. This photo below has turned out the best, I think, because it really looks like my friend Katherine is actually there (she's the third girl from the right, standing up - click on the image to see it closer up).