Resizing photoshop picture...?

Question

So once I use the lasso tool to cut out someones face, and open another picture to paste that face onto the new one, how do i resize the face?

Answer 1

It isa very simple process really.First you make a copy of the original picture, one of the picture , ( yours, for example ), and a copy of the final picture, fora total of 3 pictures. You take the first picture which will be layer o, or the primary layr. take the second picture and use the rectangular marquee tool and change it to an eliptical marquee tool after which you will place the marquee tool over the head to copied and click/drag to get the desired size. You then select a pointer which is at the RAN OUT OF SPACE

Answer 2

You won't be able to such an enlargement. Even the specialty enlargement plug ins, like Genuine Fractals, would not be able to do that sort of enlargement. In general you cannot take a raster image whether from your digital camera, created from scratch in Photoshop or any other raster (pixel-based) program and make it larger. There is only so much data in the image, and even the best ways of enlarging pixel-based images are only making a best guess at where to fill in missing data. General rule is you have to start out with a big image, which you can shrink down, but not enlarge (you can always delete/remove data, but you can't add in what isn't there, which is what you are trying to do. It looks nasty because all you are doing is making the pixels bigger.) What you need to do is create that banner picture in Illustrator, which is vector based. Because vector programs are using lines, points, and curves, and work with mathematical calculations (which the computer does), they can be enlarged almost infinitely (it's called scalability). You can take your banner and place it in Illustrator as a template and hand trace it, or if it's not too complicated, uses flat color and strong contrast, you can try using Live Trace in Illustrator, which will turn the image into vectors. However, Live Trace tends to be rather tricky to use. Other than that, there really isn't any good way to make something that small into anything nearly the size you need.

Answer 3

Ctrl T for free transform. Use the percentage ratios to keep the height and width respective.