Giant Step 3: Placing the Guy in the City

Creating a Giant in Photopea: Putting our Giant in the City

We now need to get our guy onto our city. There are several different ways we can pull this off, but one of the easiest is simply using copy/paste (if you want to use a different method go for it!).

With your guy still selected, press Ctrl+C on the keyboard to copy him to the device's clipboard
Click the city image file name at the top left of the Photopea window to switch to that image...
Press Ctrl+V to paste the guy into the city...

Notice that when you paste him into your city that Photopea places him on a new layer...

This is good, this is what we want

You can rename the layer that your guy sits on if you want, but it's not necessary. Just make sure as you work through the rest of this project that the layer that your guy sits on stays selected. We will be creating additional layers later, but we will not be modifying the Background (the city) layer at all.

We want him to be pushing on the tan colored building on the right, so let's flip him around.

Click Edit then point at Transform and click Flip Horizontally...

This will make your guy face the opposite direction...

We now need to move him into place. Our goal here is that it looks like he is pushing the tan colored building on the right. We can't just place him so that his hands are touching the building because his feet will not line up with the building...

We need to adjust him so that his feet are on the red line and his hands rest on the top of the building

Click Edit then click Free Transform...
Click on the guy and drag him to move him so that his feet are in line with the building...
Press and hold the Shift key and click and drag the upper-left corner resize handle (red arrow below) until he is a proper size so that his right hand is in line with the top of the building then release both the mouse and the Shift key...
Now click on him and drag him into position so that his right hand is at the top corner of the building...

If things don't line up like the above image, continue to resize and move him as needed until his feet are in the proper position and his hand is at the corner of the building
When he is in the correct place, press the Enter key to apply the transform

He should now be in place, but you may notice that we have a few problems. His forward foot is in front of the building when it should be in the middle of it, and his left arm appears to go nowhere. In the next step we will make some adjustments to his body so that the scene looks more realistic.

At this point, we have made some pretty big changes, so let's save our image as a psd file in case we need to close it and come back to it later.

Close the Giant1 image (the picture of the guy pushing the car) - if Photopea prompts you that you have unsaved work in the image and asks if you really want to close it, click OK
In the Giant0 image (the city image that should now include your guy), click File and then click Save as PSD...
Save the image as GIANT.psd in the GIANT folder you created in Step 1