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Paste in Place & Auto-Align Layers: Fixing Group Shots
Group shots are always a challenge because, without a doubt, somebody in the group will be totally hammered (at least, that’s been the experience with my
family. You know I’m kidding, right?). Okay, the real problem is that in group photos there’s always one or more people who blinked at just the wrong
time, or forgot to smile, or wasn’t looking at the camera, etc. We’re going to look at two ways to fix this really easily—the first one is the easiest, which is
when you use a tripod to take the shot, and the second is when you shoot your group shots hand-held (don’t worry, still easy).

Step One:
Here’s a group shot I took on a tripod (hand-held version coming shortly) with some of the crew after a shoot in the studio (L to R: Steve, Jason “J-Bone,”
Christina, Viktor, and Erik). Erik (in the red shirt, with his arms crossed, on the far right) was caught in mid-blink, but that’s why we always take a number
of group shots, one right after the other, because the more people in the shot, the more likely it is that someone was blinking, or was caught looking the
other way, or wasn’t smiling. So we’ll need to find another shot from that same shoot where Erik wasn’t blinking.

Step Two:
Here’s another shot taken just a few moments later. Erik looks great in this shot, but I don’t want to use this one as the final image because everyone else’s
expressions are much better in the other shot. So, we have one shot with four people with great expressions, and this photo where Erik has a great
expression. The idea is to take Erik’s expression from this shot and add it to the shot you see in Step One. That way, everybody looks great.