AV News 193 - August 2013
This will enable you to see the area of layer one (bottom layer) that you want
to overlay to form your third image. From the 'tools palette' choose an
appropriate 'selection tool', the 'lasso tool'
provides great freedom to
loosely draw around any area
you wish to select. After
selecting the appropriate area
'feather' the edges of the
selection (Shift +F6). Note:
the selection does not need to
be precise and the amount of
feathering will depend on how
soft you wish the edges to be,
and also the size of your
image. You may need to
experiment to find the most suitable size of feathering. Inverse your feathered
selection (Shift + Ctrl + i), now delete the unwanted area simply by hitting the
delete
button
on
your
keyboard. You should now
have just the wanted area
surrounded by transparent
pixels allowing layer one to
show through the transparent
areas.
Now adjust the 'opacity' of
layer two to suit the visual
requirements of your 'third
image'. Save your .psd file.
From layer one (bottom layer)
make and save a .jpg image
using an appropriate name. Repeat the make and save for Layer two copy (top
layer). Select both layer one and layer two (bottom and middle layers), right click
on the mouse and select 'merge layers' from the pop-up menu. Make and save
a .jpg file again using an appropriate name.
You can now close the .psd file without saving, next time you open this file
the three layers will be intact
with nothing merged.
In the above example the
bright foreground tomatoes at
the right lower corner was cut
out from layer two to make the
third image combined with
'gaussion blur' applied to layer
one. These images were taken
in Egypt on Fuji 35mm colour
negative film then scanned to
produce digital images.
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