Terry Grogan

Another great week! I thought I knew a lot about layers, but I learned a few things today, as well as a trick or two from the lesson. I love the shortcut of coping an imagine onto another on its own layer just by dragging the layer title to the new picture. Boy, does that save time! 

I followed along with the lessons this week and did all the examples, but I had so much fun playing on my own, I decided to only post my own "stuff" this week rather than any of the lesson work.

Playing with layers

Here are thumbnails of three images - one of my husband and dog, one of some geese that I scanned in, and another of a lake in England I took on my last visit there. 

My husband appears to be looking at something so I figured I'd give him something to look at, lol.

Here's what I did.  I cut out the two geese and three of the babies on the right from the middle image. I then copied and pasted this as a new layer onto the picture of my husband.  I resized, modified the contrast and added a drop shadow. Blend mode is normal.  I then used the magic wand, selected the dull sky, and promoted it to a layer. I liked the sky in my lake picture, so I used the clone tool set at size of 20, hardness 50, opacity 65, step 5, density 65 and "painted" it into the promoted selection. Blend mode is normal. I then created a new layer, used the freehand selection tool, and drew a squiggly patch for water in the right, bottom corner.  Again, I used the clone tool, changing the opacity to 75, and filled in the bank and water. I then deselected all. Blend mode is normal. To keep the bank and grass from having such a severe join line, I used the eraser tool set at a size of 5, hardness 50, opacity 75, step1, density 75 and erased some of the area between the bank and the grass to have the grass fill in a bit along the bank line.

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