More PS practice -- this one a "simple" task of figuring out how to upload an image to use as a background layer and then merge with the focal image. I did figure it out but not sure I could repeat it again easily. Original image from September 2016.
What an amazing variety of images on WWYD199 - thanks for sending me over there. Photoshop remains a bit of a mystery to me other than a spot of simple editing. You're doing really well with your practice and learning. Nice image.
I would love to follow this tutorial - perhaps you could point me in the right direction? I am sure that I achieve some of my photoshopping with some very bad and ill advised habits. This merged very well - am I right in thinking you succeeded in obscuring a distracting brick wall?
@helenhall The tutorial is by Mattk (matte.com) and I think it's on sale at the moment. The background was basically black dirt, nothing interesting at all. I was so pleased at how different the branch looked against the softer toned and textured backdrop. Thanks for stopping by! Always appreciated!
@jgpittenger I'm not sure I can recreate the process, but think it was adding textures as a second layer. Then I think I used 'soft light' to change the layer format and reduced its opacity. Then, I think I did something with overlay or maybe with erase so that I could bring the greens back in. After that I think I used a gradient filter to adjust lighting. And then brought it back into LR to do final tweaks. Something like that, anyway! And I had to free transform the texture layer so it would be large enough.
