It's much easier in PhotoShop. No cutting, copying, or pasting. You can get complete instructions in the PhotoShop tutorial. Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Don, > > Did anyone ever answer your question? Not aware that they did. > > Well, I don't know PhotoShop at all. But I do know PaintShop Pro (one of the >marvels, btw, of the computer age -- sure, there are higher ends painting programs >but it does everything I need a computer drawing/painting program to do), and they >can't be too different when it comes to using layers. > > 1. Layers are very complicated, but one of the best ways to work when doing computer >drawing/painting. So there is a high learning curve for doing anything extensive with >layers. For instance, because drawing/painting is very complicated in real life >(think of all that hand eye coordination and of the different mediums one can use -- >pencils, charcoal, paint, and think of all the different styles one can have), >PaintShop Pro is a complicated program because it has to be to cover all the options >of drawing/painting. So it has the highest learning curve of any program I have ever >used (and I am still learning). > > 2. For what you want though, the basics of layers should be fairly easy. > > 3. So I will tell you how I would do it in PaintShop Pro. > > a.) Make two images the same size and the same alignment in each window. > b.) Click on one image and "promote it to a layer". There should be a layer menu >selection somewhere on one of the tool bars that has this option or something similar. > c.) Copy the whole image. Copy/cut/paste should be on the edit menu on a tool bar. > d.) Paste on the other image. You now have two layers with two images, one >superimposed on top of the other. But only the top image will show because they are >both opaque. > e.) In the layer menu selection should be a way to switch between the two layers >(usually it will show a list of layers, click on one layer in the list or the other). > f.) Switching between the two, set the opacity for both images to 50% (layer menu). >Now you have an image combined of both layers. > g.) If you want an offset between the images, move around the top image/layer. >Otherwise don't touch it. Because after you copied and pasted it, it was probably >aligned correctly. > h.) Merge the layers (again, layer menu). > > The top layer is considered to be "floating" until the layers are merged which is >why it can be moved around. > > All done. > > Now that's the way it works in PaintShop Pro, but PhotoShop can't be that different. >Or maybe it is, I really don't know. > > HTH, Doe aka Marnie
