If you’ve always wanted to Photoshop yourself into a famous painting like “The Last Supper” or “The Scream”, now you can with ease, thanks to the work of a team at Cornell University.
![A Twitter post of a man who has copied his image into the well-known paintings "The Scream", "Luncheon of the boating Party", "Creation of Adam", and "The Last Supper". [Screenshot: China Plus]](http://img0.zhytuku.meldingcloud.com/images/zhycms_chinaplus/20181225/c2d404ce-dcf3-402b-a397-6d44faeabf6b.png?x-oss-process=image/resize,w_554)
Researchers at the university have published a paper on the university’s arXiv platform on a new software tool they developed that allows users to copy an object from a photo into the image of a painting, and the software adapts the new image to match the brushwork of the painting.
![The process of merging the two different images together. [Screenshot: China Plus]](http://img1.zhytuku.meldingcloud.com/images/zhycms_chinaplus/20181225/23b11803-1c33-4155-b207-9770326eb918.png?x-oss-process=image/resize,w_650)
The software, that the researchers provided a link to in their paper, creates the new image by assessing the patterns of the brushwork, and then applying it to the new object copied into the picture.
![The process of merging the two different images together. [Screenshot: China Plus]](http://img2.zhytuku.meldingcloud.com/images/zhycms_chinaplus/20181225/ec186eac-a4b8-417f-8f38-dfce05cc0fe2.png?x-oss-process=image/resize,w_650)
The researchers believe that their work opens up new possibilities for creatively editing and combining images in a way that might inspire future artists.
