Masking Images in Photoshop.
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1/. Find three images which could be masked together. In this example - a house, a fire and a tree.
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2/. Resize the images so they are proportioned, to the appropriate size. The background should be large.
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The final image used here is a cottage, with a fire out front and a tree.
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1/. A cottage |
2/. A fire |
3/. A tree |
4/. The finished image. |
The full sized images are linked to the thumbs above.
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This is how it is all done in Photoshop using layers and a layer mask.
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1/. Open the background image.
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2/. Open the next two images.
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3/. Copy/paste the two images to the same file as the background, ensuring the background image is the bottom layer. If layers are not shown, Window/Layers turn on the layers.
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4/. Select all the layers - Shift/Click, so they are highlighted.
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5/. Edit/Auto-Blend Layers and use the settings - Stack Images and Seamless Tones and Colours.
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Here's a more complex example, that requires a lot of background removal on the image:
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A desert scene |
A ship (with a lot of background removed - using the eraser) |
A fire |
The result |
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Here's another example:
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Take a forest |
Add a fire |
Add a train, twice, with the second image rotated |
The result |
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