5. Choose Edit | Paste Into Selection. You should see the second image pasted into the
?¬? rst image.
6. Click the Move tool and drag the new image around in the selection until it??™s
composed to your liking.
You can use this technique in all sorts of ways. In addition to making your windows look
out over an unusual vista, you can have a plain board become a famous painting or create
your own news or weather effects. Experiment??”it??™s fun and easy to do.
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Blue Screen without the Screen
A common variation on the blue screen technique is to borrow an element from one photo and
insert it into another.
1. Open the photo of the person or subject that will be transplanted into another scene.
2. Create a selection area around the entire subject you want to transplant to another scene.
Most of the time, you probably want to start with the Magnetic Lasso tool, but you might
also have good results with the Magic Wand. In this case, the background was so uniform
that I selected it with the Magic Wand and then used the Select | Inverse command to
only select the airplane:
3. When the selection is complete, choose Edit | Copy from the menu.
4. Open the second image.
5. Choose Edit | Paste. Your selection should appear in the second scene, but it might not be
the right size.
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