Combining Images II

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If you are sure that you have the image positioned as you want it, you may want to apply the mask. This deletes the part of the masked layer which is behind, or concealed by the mask, and removes the mask (which is no longer necessary). To do this, choose Layer > Remove Layer Mask > Apply. That’s what I did with this image once I had the apple ‘behind’ the snake.		 next
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Displacing Textures 		If you look at the image, above, you will see that the apple ought to be casting a shadow on the snake at the image’s center. To make this look shadowed, I made the snake’s layer active. I then made a selection, shown below, and chose Select > Feather, entering 2 px in the Feather dialog box.
     Next, with the selection active, I chose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast. (In Photoshop v. 5.5 you would choose Layer > New > Adjustment Layer, and then choose Brightness/Contrast from the dialog box’s menu.) I made a minus 43 % Brightness, and minus 23 % Contrast adjustment.
     Because I had an area selected before creating the adjustment layer, only the selected area was affected by the Brightness/Contrast changes.
     It would have been easier, and probably looked just as good if I had simply used the burn tool to darken the snake and apple in this area. In Photoshop, there are generally at least three different ways to do things.
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