Add Someone to a Photo

Two photos, two kinds of light

A family wants one photo for a frame on the welcome table at a wedding. The group picture on the seaside boardwalk is the one everyone likes: the mother and her three grown children are close together and smiling, in soft light from an overcast sky. There is room for one more person on the mother's right, and the father is only in a separate portrait taken in the backyard on a bright sunny day.

Who uses this

• Families preparing a framed photo, an album page or a program for a wedding or an anniversary
• People adding a relative who could not be at the shoot, using a real photo of that person
• Anyone combining two photos from different days and places into one group picture

How the edit is handled

A human editor takes the father from his own portrait and sets him in the gap beside the mother. His head height and scale are matched to the people next to him, and the strong side sunlight, the backyard background and the glare on his glasses are replaced with the flat, soft light of the boardwalk. His navy shirt and glasses stay as they are in his portrait. The other four people are kept as shot and checked against the original at full size.

The area where his shoulder meets the mother's and the part of him that the railing hides are an estimate. The two photos were taken at different times, so the result is a composite and should not be presented as a single moment.

What to upload

Send the group photo and a clear, front-facing photo of the person to add, as large as you have it. Tell us where in the row the person should stand.

This example uses 2 photos you send: the boardwalk photo and Dad's photo. Both are edited into the result, so it is 2 photos, 2 credits. A photo you send only to show the editor something is free.

Private: recreated on our own images, not customer photos

The before/after shown here is recreated on images created or licensed for this site — never a real customer's photo. Your upload is seen only by the editor working on it, and the edit comes with free revisions within 14 days of delivery if anything needs adjusting.