Forum: Photoshop

Subject: PHOTOSHOP :The sun is rising and I STILL don't know what I am doing wrong!!

MINTY1974 opened this issue on Jul 15, 2004 ยท 5 posts

MINTY1974 posted Thu, 15 July 2004 at 11:56 PM

Hi all, Please, PLEASE someone help me. Just installed a demo of Photoshop 7 2 days ago and been having a lot of fun with it. I've produced 2 images with it, but I now have a specific problem thats driving me nuts! I want to create a 'Zombie' Image using 3 layers: Skin, muscle and skeleton. Here's the problem. How on Earth do I get all 3 layers (see example pic) in the same 'scene'? When I try to open them they come in seperately as 3 different 'backgrounds' and not as layers. I have never used Photoshop until 2 days ago so any advice would be great. Please help if you can as my girlfriend thinks the sight of a grown man crying is pathetic LOL! Thank's in advance Tony (MINTY1974)

lundqvist posted Fri, 16 July 2004 at 2:20 AM Online Now!

Easiest way: Open all 3 three documents at once, select the "move" tool, click on one of the documents and drag onto another open one. PS will add a new layer with the content of the document you dragged from. In short, PS allows you to drag and drop between document windows. Alternatively you could select a source document, do edit->select all, copy, click on the destination document and paste.

RHaseltine posted Fri, 16 July 2004 at 2:40 PM

Hold down shift as you drag to make sure that they images arrive lined up (shift-drag puts one image on top of the other if they are both the same size, or centres the new image in the document if they are different sizes)

retrocity posted Mon, 19 July 2004 at 7:35 PM

also change the "blend mode" on the upper layers to allow the underlying image to show through...

you can find the blen modes in the layer palette, by default it is set to NORMAL... do a search in the forum for "blend mode" ... well, here are a few that talk about it:

http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1813741

http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1813741

http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1317871

http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=713695

hope it helps,
:)
retrocity

retrocity posted Tue, 20 July 2004 at 9:38 PM

here's an example of what i mean by changing the blend modes...

first layer has a blend mode of "Soft Light"

the second layer has a blend mode of "Screen"

and the bottom layer is left as "Normal", as this layer won't impact any other pixels (there's nothing left under it ;))

you can also change the opacity and fill of your layers for additional effect.

hope this helps,

:)
retrocity