Combining Images III

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This tutorial is a follow up to the other two Combining Images tutorials on this site. The first of those lessons taught you how to move one image onto another and blend the edges to make the moved object look natural on its new background. The second showed you how to use layer masks. This one will show you how to put the moved object into a partially transparent background, in this case, a glass bottle. 		next
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Displacing Textures 		I used the picture of a Ball canning jar in a kitchen cupboard as my background into which I wanted to put my moved object. The ‘object’ that I used was a render of a woman from a 3D application (The app is Poser. This picture was originally made over a year ago as a Poser joke “How to save your poses.”) You’ll find the render at the bottom of this section.
     One of the nice things about 3D renders is that they generate their own alpha, meaning it’s easy as pie to cut the object out of its background. All you have to do is load the alpha. Since I can’t save the alpha with the Web .jpg file, you’ll have to cut the woman out of her background on your own, but it shouldn’t be too hard since she’s on pure white. If you need help extracting her from her background, review the first Combining Images tutorial. You need to be sure and cut the woman cleanly out of the white base; she should be surrounded by transparency with no white fringe.
     Once you have gotten the woman selected and/or moved to her own layer, use the move tool to drag her onto the bottle picture. Press and hold the Shift key before dropping her onto the bottle image. She should position herself perfectly since the file shown here was generated from the layer I used in my final image. Here is what your Layers palette will look like at this point.
layers before masking
     If you are working with your own images, use the move tool to position the object where you want it after you have dragged it onto its new background. Since it will be on its own layer, you don’t need to select it before moving. Just be sure the moved object’s layer is selected in the Layers palette before you use the move tool.
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