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The fake magazine over the face look - how is this done?

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I like the second one better. First one is good except for the "front" hand--you wouldn't hold a magazine that way. Cool effect though, especially in 2.
 
If i am not mistaken, these are real magazines held in front of their faces.

The illusion is making the magazine pic look like their face, not faking a magazine over their real pic.
 
If you want to fake the second image, take a picture of two people kissing and then a second picture of them holding a magazine in front of their faces. Put the magazine image on a layer above the non-magazine image. Mask out the cover of the magazine so that the faces show through. Add a desaturation layer and mask it so that only the cover is desaturated. You could distort the faces slightly and modify the background where it shows on the magazine cover if you want to get fancy.

If you only have one picture of the people, you could take a picture of a magazine alone and blend it with the image. Grab the magazine with your own hand and hold it in front of you while you photograph it to create the hand in front of the cover.

jbf
 
Dude, I'm the one asking how it's done, LOL.

If you got to the link there are lots of different examples. It's a very cool technique that is not just playing with saturation - look at the edge of the magazine as well as the slight fold and distortion.

I can't do it, or I wouldn't be asking. So far I haven't seen anyone else able to either :)

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Jeremiah 1:5
 
Maybe I'm off on this - I don't read advertisements or magazines - are those the real magazine pictures and they're just posing with them? I thought when I first saw this that they were putting their own pictures into magazine articles such as the guy kissing the model.

Maybe this is simpler than I realize - just hold a magazine up to your face in the general direction, LOL.

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Jeremiah 1:5
 
Real magazines, I think. The one picture on the site you linked to is with Memoirs of a Geisha (book) I'm sure that one is real. The others look Japanese, so I couldn't say for sure on them, but I've seen this shot before and it has always been with a real magazine. :)
 
You could take a photo the person without the magazine, and then a photo with them holding a magazine with a blank back page. Do something similar to what elight did. Then apply the part of the altered image to the back of the magazine. A magazine is a 3-D object, and has a bit of a shine to it. I would try something similar to what is done in this video tutorial. The creator of the tutoral applies a flat graphic to a photo of a shiny red coffee mug. The area of the applied image is made to have a sheen like the mug.

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/graphic-on-mug.html

Hope this helps. Be sure to post a pic when you figure out how to do this. Look fun.

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Becky
new owner of a Pentax K100D & eager to learn
 
if you look at all of the different examples. It looks like the same couple in every picture. I would say they just found magazines that looked close to them and the took the posed picture.
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