Ever wish you had a person in your landscape to show scale? Or wish that you could easily add something new to your photos but it was too hard to match colors and blend the edges? Photoshop’s new “harmonize” feature is designed to let you easily composite anything into your photos and it’s very impressive.

In this tutorial, we’ll add a person to this landscape to give it a sense of scale and make it more interesting. Ideally, I would have a photo of myself or a friend to use – but I haven’t done these sorts of blends in the past because they’re complicated and would have taken a lot of time. So instead, we’ll create someone using the “generate image” AI tool in Photoshop.

The workflow to add a subject and blend with harmonize is:

• Add a layer with an image of a person – or go to Edit / Generate Image to create one.
  • In the Properties panel, click “remove background” (if you generated the image, right click it to see this option).
  • Resize and position the layer as desired. Click <cmd/ctrl>-T to transform, and right click there if you need advanced options (such as flipping the layer horizontally).
• Go to Image / Harmonize (you can right-click the layer for this option sometimes).
  • Hide the source layer (PS should do this for you, you don’t want both the old and new showing).
  • With the harmonized layer still selected, go to the Properties panel to select different variations or generate more.
  • Review the result and paint black on the mask if it affects the background, and consider clipping additional adjustments to the layer as needed to refine further.

A few interesting things to note about “harmonize”:

• The resolution is pretty good and will work great for social media. However, it isn’t yet suitable for full resolution work intended for print.
• The new harmonize layer covers the entire image. It will show great detail in the original subject pixels, and much lower quality in the areas outside that. The extra pixels allow some blending into the background.