Might help some of you with next month assignment . . . :confused: . . .:D Sample in Educational Before & after.
This is how I did it: Opened the Peacock BG in CS3. Then I opened Trichocereus. I selected Trico, pressed V (Move) and dragged it onto the Peacock BG, I did this twice and put them where I thought they would look best. In the Layers window I now have #2 Trico on top, next #1 Trico, then background.
First I click on #2 Trico In Layers, click "Opacity" directly above it and play with Opacity.
Then I click on #1 Trico and do the same
If you want to adjust Background, Click on Background Layer. I then clicked "Eye Icon" on both Trico layers to hide them temporarily and enhance Background to suit as you usually enhance photos
Then I clicked both Trico eye icons to reveal all layers.
I then clicked on each Trico layer one at a time, pressed "E" (eraser) set preliminary size to 175 (Adjust size to suit as I go along) Hardness at "0", and "Opacity" on Menu Bar to 20 and erase edges to my personal taste.
Before I finalized I played with Trico Opacity, and moving them around.
When finished I save it as a PSD file retaing layers for future corrections. Then I flattened layers, checked I was at BPN size limits. When satisfied, I clicked File>Save For Web & Devices, Clicked on Quality and adjusted size shown under left bottom corner of image to under 200 KB (This will remove your EXif and save it as a JPG)
About the only thing I would do is feather the effect around the flower more and give it a little more density. A work of art and big things for listing the steps to follow !! Big Congrats !!!
As we have been having unusualy wet weather I have been playing with PS. This composite was a quickie to maybe help with Al's September assignement. Al, as usual, your comments are right on the money, and I should have given it fine finishing. touches.
After looking at lots of exceptionaly beautiful bird photos on BPN I'm anxious to try my hand getting some.
BTW: If any one doesn't want to pay out vthe big bucks for Photoshop, Corel' Paint Shop Pro X2 is one heck of a great program, on sale at the moment. Has quite a few extras not found in PS, picture frames for one, and other neat touches with tons of tutorials on the web . No, I'm not getting a kick back . . . Uncle Gus
Thanks for looking at efforts, however, Dali visted me in a turbulent dream last night & said I wasn't outrageous enough . . . So . . . "Outrageous to the MAX." . . . Uncle Gus :eek:
Very Simple Composite How?
