Click on the Syringe at the right of the toolbar, and your pointer will also change to a syringe. What colour to use? The best way to find out is to sample the sunset itself.We want to add a slight colour tinge, so select the Paint pot and from the pull-down menu in the Palette window choose Filter.Click on the Cross again, go back to the hands image and click on the Palette to return to painting mode. The colours are wrong - the hands are clearly reflecting bright blue sky, not sunset tones. Try it out (go into Montage mode and load the selection as described above):
This will also make a better composition, with the plane flying into the welcoming arms. Open the image menu, and select Photodesk>Image>X flip.
Click on the Scale button, ensure Both axes and Bi-cubic interpolation are selected, and enter "2/3" into the By writeable icon:.Open the hands image's menu, and select Photodesk>Image>Resize.It should look like this:Įnsure the alpha channel can be written to If the pencil is orange, it means that this channel can be written to (ie changed). Ensure that all the channels have their Pencil icon selected - we want to do some operations on the whole image, and must ensure that the mask is affected as well. Go back to the hands image, and open its Channels window. Click on the Cross to get rid of the preview. There are several things wrong with this, which we'll now correct.You should get something looking like this (scaled for the web):.
The image will only be rendered when you fix it, either by pressing Space or clicking on the Tick. It's important to realise that this is only a preview nothing has been drawn so far. If the hands aren't placed right, just drag them around. An outline will follow the mouse, and when you release the Select button the image will appear (providing the Copy: Preview icon is on).