In the Blend Mode at top (Normal is shown), try Multiply. Try the Layer Styles dialogue box by double-clicking on the layer for other style options. See how the head looks, well, slightly more ghostly.ġ0. If you want, click on the "Layer 1" window and change the name of the layer to something that makes more sense, such as "ghostly man." In the Layers panel choose Opacity ofĪbout 60 percent. Note: You can't work on a layer that's not highlighted in the panel-aĭroll failing of drippy debutantes, which you're not. You can drag a layer on the panel to change its layer order. LayersĪre displayed on the panel in the order they appear on your image-top in Layer is visible-to make it temporarily invisible, toggle off the eye. Click on panel to choose other layers to work on. You can move or change anything on this layer without affecting the rest of The layer you're currently working on will be highlighted. Yep, the head'sĪ new layer all right, likely called Layer 1. Under Window pulldown, choose Show Layers (if the Layers panel isn't already open). Image (or Return key) to accept the changes.ħ. Note that dragging to enlargeĬan pixellate a low-res image, so use this feature sparingly. Try Distort or Warp also to add a more spirit-like look. From the Edit menu, choose Transform and Scale. Likely the head still will be a bit big or small. (The Copy and Paste or drag and drop keep your original image intact, which you usually want.) Note that the head will drop onto a new layer automatically created by Photoshop.Ħ. It's not precisely placed, use the arrow keys to nudge pixel by pixel. To move the head, choose Copy (or Cut), and Paste it onto the club moss. Image smaller) until the result looks more in perspective to the head.ĥ. So, using the Image Size dialogue box, chop pixels off your club moss (make the You can either make the head bigger or the club moss smaller. This gives youĪn idea of how well your head will fit into the moss. This way you can compare both photos at the same time. Now from the Window pulldown choose the Arrange option and 2-up vertical. Zoom back out so that both club moss and Limerick are at the same percent screen view size, 75% to 100%. This gives you a softer blend between images.Ĥ. In the dialogue box, adjust the Feather slider to aboutĥ pixels.
Hold down the Option key (to subtract) or Shift Key (to add), and circle with the Lasso tool or drag with the Quick Selection tool whatįrom the Select pulldown, choose Refine Edge. Remember: To add or subtract pixels from your selection for a perfect copy, Zoom in on head image to about 200% so that you can accurately select the head with the Stone head into the moss-and make it ghostly. The plan is to copy and paste that bearded Irish Save these practice images from the Photoshop practice photos file: Limerick.jpg Ģ. Work with one detail of an image without disturbing others.ġ. Set up layers to collect strange bits of pictures into one composite image, or Layers one at a time to complete the whole lurid picture. With important bones, glands, organs, hair and zits could be superimposed on Geezer note: Some of us remember from grade school those serious-mindedīooks describing "the human body," in which several layers of plastic Such is the principle of layers, as introduced in Lesson Five. To muck about on a crystal sheet of clear acetate hovering above our image? Messyįailings can merely be whisked away, and the original image remains unsullied. Only a thorough cleansing (choose Step Backward under File menu, or use the History panel)Ĭan bring us back to some sort of pristine original. Mucking about perhaps a desperate level of hopeless degradation, after which We've been making a shocking carnage with our images,
#Pixel sorter on adjustment layers skin
Lesson Six: layers, red eye removal, improving skin tones.
#Pixel sorter on adjustment layers software
Learning Software (Version CS6 for Macintosh)Ī self-guided tutorial by Ross Collins, North Dakota State University