Well, it sounds like you have at least some of the artistic side down, it is the technical side that you need work with. You, absolutely, positively, must study layers. What you want to do requires layers, you can do it without layers, but that would be messy and would not allow you to make adjustments to get the effect you want. It would also help to study masks. Masks and layers are the key to making good compositions. You would start with starlit background. Get the right picture of you grandniece. If you read through the book, you will learn how to mask her image so that only what you want revealed will show. Masking is preferable to extracting because you can edit the image with the Eraser and the Brush. Once you get image you want, resize it to the proportions you want. Finally, copy it to the starlit background. It will show up as a layer, this will make it easy to move it around to get it to look right. Since it is a layer you will be able to edit its position later. You will then get the picture of her parents, mask it the way you want, and copy to the starlit background. Do the same with the grandparents. This is a very rough idea of what you do, and hopefully it will help you understand what you need to learn. Artistically, there other things you can do once the images are all there. Once you understand layers, then there will be a lot of creative doors opening in your mind. Masking is essential, so learn it.
If you do not understand layers, do you remember encyclopedias?? Remember their section on anatomy?? Most encyclopedias a stack of plastic pages. When you opened it you would see a nude body, pull back one layer, and you would see the body without skin. As you pulled back different pages you deeper into the interior of the body, until you wound up with just the bones. Photoshop is like that, each layer is transparent until you paint, or put an image on it. You can erase parts of a layer to see some of the layer below. Of course, Photoshop is a lot more complex than that, but that is a start.
You do have a lot to learn, but you can do it, and it will please them no end..
JohnW
From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Praising Jesus
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:24 PM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [photoshop-beginners] Photoshop Masking & Compositing, 2nd Edition , eBook special
OK, so I have the book and the first four chapters are about history, the process, etc. Most of the emphasis is on creativity and ideas using compositing. So, how do you translate an idea into a Photoshop project?
I have an idea for a picture. I want a star-lit background, basically a dark background. Then I want a picture of my grandniece in the lower left hand corner. Her face will be somewhere around 1/6th of the photo. Her face will be brightly lit and the picture will draw your eyes to her. She’s looking up at the stars (3 years old) with one of those looks where you know she’s thinking, learning, imagining. Then I want a small inset of her parents (my niece) about ½ way up the right side, dark like the star background, but large enough you can identify them as her proud parents, looking down at her, enjoying her delight in learning about the stars. Now in the upper left, also dark, but recognizable, I want the grandparents (my sister), looking down on their child and their grandchild, lovingly and proud watching both of them with equal fascination. Sort of three generations watching each succeeding generation growing, learning and leading the way for future generations.
So, I know little about Photoshop, I have this book that tells me to dream of a picture/project, but I am not an artist and I have no idea how to start to create this picture. What do I do?
---Mike
From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Betty
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:50 PM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [photoshop-beginners] Photoshop Masking & Compositing, 2nd Edition , eBook special
YES!!!! Betty
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From: Beauregard Waller
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:59 PM
Subject: RE: [photoshop-beginners] Photoshop Masking & Compositing, 2nd Edition , eBook special
For reference and text books, it is hard to beat eBooks. No pages flopping over at the wrong moment, the ability to search the entire text………….
JohnW
From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Praising Jesus
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:05 AM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [photoshop-beginners] Photoshop Masking & Compositing, 2nd Edition , eBook special
I’m using a Kindle Fire, but it works the same, it’s just 7” instead of 10”. It looks like exactly what I was seeking.
---Mike
From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Beauregard Waller
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:57 AM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [photoshop-beginners] Photoshop Masking & Compositing, 2nd Edition , eBook special
What I like about the eBooks is that I have a Samsung tablet, so I put the book on it. I can then prop the tablet up in front of my computer. This way I can follow the text and examples and work them out in PS without either getting in the way. It is like a dual monitor set up, but the second monitor is small : )
JohnW
From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Praising Jesus
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 6:30 PM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [photoshop-beginners] Photoshop Masking & Compositing, 2nd Edition , eBook special
Thank you – I got a copy, it looks great, at 507 pages it isn’t exactly east reading :-) but it’s well illustrated.
---Mike
From: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Beauregard Waller
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 4:27 PM
To: photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com; adobephotoshop@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [photoshop-beginners] Photoshop Masking & Compositing, 2nd Edition , eBook special
Information about “Photoshop Masking & Compositing”:
http://www.peachpit.com/store/photoshop-masking-compositing-9780133123951
For one week the eBook is $15 instead of $48:
JohnW
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