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	6.0 Combining Images page four With the flower’s selection active, I chose the move tool in the toolbox, and, pressing the Alt key, dragged it to the fern image. You don’t have to press the Alt key when moving an image from one window to another. Photoshop will automatically make it a copy, not a cut. However, I have butterfingers, and feel better if I press Alt in case I drop the image before I get clear of the original window. Silly, I know. Below, is the moved image. It doesn’t look too bad, but would benefit from a softer merge with the ferns. If you drop your image onto the wrong spot after you’ve moved it, just select the move tool, and reposition it. Use the arrow keys for one pixel movements when the move tool is selected. Images dragged onto another window like this are placed on a new layer in the Layers palette, so the moved image is all alone on its own layer. This means you don’t have to select it. You can move the whole layer.	next back start Tips 7 Tools 7 Palettes
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Older Tutorials Quick Mask Rubberstamping More Adjustments Sharpening Filters Color Elements Tutorials Elements Basics Reference: Elements Tools Reference: Elements Palettes How Do I...? Gotcha Pre-Beginner Pre-Beginner II Why Layers? Holes Fade In Playing With Styles Learning Effects Redeye Removal Artistic Filtering Symmetrical Flowers Simulated Alpha Channels Layer Masks Multilayer Masks Displacing Textures	To add a feather to the flower, however, you do need to select it. Pressing Ctrl, I clicked on the flower’s layer name in the Layers palette. Ctrl-clicking a layer’s name selects all non-transparent areas on the layer. Technically, it selects the layer’s transparency mask. With the flower selected, I chose Select > Feather and entered a value of 3 pixels in the Feather dialog box. This is too much for an image of this size and resolution, but I want it to show up on an optimized JPEG. I made sure the Preserve Transparency check box in the Layers palette was not selected. I selected the move tool in the toolbox, and then pressed the up arrow key twice. I then pressed the down arrow key twice. Finally, I deselected the image by pressing Ctrl-D, or by choosing Select > Deselect. The flower is now right back where it started, but has been feathered with its new background. Moving it caused the feather to be applied. Shown below, left, is the edge of the flower, with no feather. At the right is the same edge after the feathering was added. *Continue of page five*

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6.0 Combining Images

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