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Paint Shop Pro 7
Compositing
Composite images are relatively easy
to create in Paint Shop Pro 7 using masks.
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For this tutorial I
decided to use the tired old cat and bird combination. I had to
resize the bird image so that it would look more to scale with the
cat. |
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Select the image
you want to add, in my case the bird and go to Edit>Copy. Then
select original image and go to Edit>Paste>Paste As New
Layer. |
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Now we'll create
the mask. Go to Masks>Show All and then Masks>Edit. You
won't see any visible difference in the image yet.
Since we want to get the cat background
image blended with the bird image we'll set black as our
foreground color. |
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I used the round
brush tool set to 30 opacity and a size of 25 until I got close to
the bird. As you can see below by brushing over the mask layer
with black it hides what you painted over.
When I got close to the bird I set my
brush size much smaller and was careful not to hit the bird when
painting around it. |
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Below is my
composite image. Pretty simple really and this project took less
than 5 minutes to complete. You wouldn't know by looking that this
picture is actually two pictures combined. |
Just to spiff it up a little I
added text to it. The text was created with my background image as the
fill and then an inner bevel and a drop shadow which resulted in the
following image.
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