Background Masking

Create a new layer in the layers palette and paste in the Master Image to that layer. Simple and easy. You will then have the Master Image on one layer and the Background Image on the other.

Robert

"Julian" wrote in message

Russell Brown has a good tutorial on masking out a background to reveal a new image behind it >
http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/AdvancedMasking.mov

However, I cannot figure out how he manages to get the two images on the same Layers palette. He has the image he wants to mask on a layer called "Master Image", and below it he has the second image (featuring the background he wants) called "Background Image".
I have been trying to duplicate this with two images of my own but cannot get them to appear on the same layer.

How to do this?

"Julian" wrote in message

Russell Brown has a good tutorial on masking out a background to reveal a new image behind it >
http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/AdvancedMasking.mov

However, I cannot figure out how he manages to get the two images on the same Layers palette. He has the image he wants to mask on a layer called "Master Image", and below it he has the second image (featuring the background he wants) called "Background Image".
I have been trying to duplicate this with two images of my own but cannot get them to appear on the same layer.

Drag the background layer onto the "new" icon at the bottom of the layers palette, or use the Duplicate Layer command in the Layer menu. —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

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Julian wrote:

However, I cannot figure out how he manages to get the two images on the same Layers palette. He has the image he wants to mask on a layer called "Master Image", and below it he has the second image (featuring the background he wants) called "Background Image".
I have been trying to duplicate this with two images of my own but cannot get them to appear on the same layer.

Open Image #1.

Open Image #2.

Use the Move tool to drag Image #2 into Image #1’s window. Simple.

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"HornBlower" wrote:

Create a new layer in the layers palette and paste in the Master Image to that layer. Simple and easy. You will then have the Master Image on one layer and the Background Image on the other.

If you use the Paste command, it automatically creates a new layer. You do not have to create a new layer first.

However, using copy/paste is an inefficient way to get one image into another, and it wastes memory. All you need to do is use the Move tool to drag one image into the other image’s window.

Generally speaking, the only reason you should be using Copy/Paste is to move images from Photoshop to another program or vice versa. Any time you copy/paste in Photoshop, there is a faster and easier way to do it.

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Excellent post, thanks for the data. I will have to try this.

garry

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Russell Brown has a good tutorial on masking out a background to reveal a new image behind it

In article <BqsHf.46928$>, Mike
Russell wrote:

"Julian" wrote in message

Russell Brown has a good tutorial on masking out a background to reveal a new image behind it >
http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/AdvancedMasking.mov

However, I cannot figure out how he manages to get the two images on the same Layers palette. He has the image he wants to mask on a layer called "Master Image", and below it he has the second image (featuring the background he wants) called "Background Image".
I have been trying to duplicate this with two images of my own but cannot get them to appear on the same layer.

Drag the background layer onto the "new" icon at the bottom of the layers palette, or use the Duplicate Layer command in the Layer menu.

Thanks for all suggestions. However, when I copy/paste, (or use the Move Tool) I do not get two clean images on the screen or on its Layers palette. I get a layer with the original Background with the "Master" image pasted into it. What I want to achieve is to get two ‘original’ images on the same Layers palette‹i.e. rather than having the original scenic image with a face pasted on to it. In the Russell Brown video (http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/AdvancedMasking.mov) he has the "Master" image up on the screen (a close-up of a man in a black hat), and the accompanying Layers palette shows two clean images, his "Master Image" (the face), and below it a desert-like scene taken from the air entitled "Background Image". There is no juxtaposition of images on what is shown on the screen (a simple close-up of a man in a black hat).

Tried attaching a clip to this post but couldn’t get it to work.

Any new ideas?

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In article <BqsHf.46928$>, Mike
Russell wrote:

"Julian" wrote in message

Russell Brown has a good tutorial on masking out a background to reveal a new image behind it >
http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/AdvancedMasking.mov

However, I cannot figure out how he manages to get the two images on the same Layers palette. He has the image he wants to mask on a layer called "Master Image", and below it he has the second image (featuring the background he wants) called "Background Image".
I have been trying to duplicate this with two images of my own but cannot get them to appear on the same layer.

Drag the background layer onto the "new" icon at the bottom of the layers palette, or use the Duplicate Layer command in the Layer menu.

Thanks for all suggestions. However, when I copy/paste, (or use the Move Tool) I do not get two clean images on the screen or on its Layers palette. I get a layer with the original Background with the "Master" image pasted into it. What I want to achieve is to get two ‘original’ images on the same Layers palette

In article <130220061155567275%>,
Julian wrote:

However, when I copy/paste, (or use the
Move Tool) I do not get two clean images on the screen or on its Layers palette. I get a layer with the original Background with the "Master" image pasted into it.

I am having a lot of trouble understanding what you mean.

Do you mean that the image you paste does not fill the entire window, so what you end up with is the image that you paste only filling part of the screen, and the original image being visible behind it?

What do you mean when you use the word "clean" in "two clean images"?

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tacit wrote:

In article <130220061155567275%>,
Julian wrote:

However, when I copy/paste, (or use the
Move Tool) I do not get two clean images on the screen or on its Layers palette. I get a layer with the original Background with the "Master" image pasted into it.

I am having a lot of trouble understanding what you mean.
Do you mean that the image you paste does not fill the entire window, so what you end up with is the image that you paste only filling part of the screen, and the original image being visible behind it?
What do you mean when you use the word "clean" in "two clean images"?

My sincere thanks to both Hunt and Tacit for showing me the error of my ways. My problem indeed arose from the fact that my ‘face’ was not the same size (963 x 1284 pixels) as my ‘background’ (2612 x 1768 pixels), and thus did not cover the background as it does in the tutorial. I had done exactly as Hunt so carefully explained (many thanks Hunt), but the result was that I "ended up with the image that I pasted only filling part of the screen" (to quote Tacit‹many thanks to you too), i.e. (to use my own words), I didn’t have two "clean" images.

Oh well! We live and learn I guess.