Adding a drawn image in to a photo

[PhotoshopNovice]

Hi guys,

First post so if it's a really obvious question then apologies! Using Photoshop Elements 13 currently - did a short Photoshop course last year for the basics but feel free to talk to me like an idiot!

Recently returned from Australia - one of the photos we took has a cloud shadow that looks (a tiny bit!) like the outline of Australia. I want to put an outline of a map of Australia over the cloud and write the names of a few places we went on it so it looks like a map. I traced round a map of Australia and tried to put it over the top of the cloud shadow, but can't make it work properly. Ideally it'd be see-through so it was literally the outline and the original photo still visible in the background.

If this makes any sense then any advice would be welcome!
Thanks x

 

[ALB68]

Hi PS Novice
Put your cloud on one layer. Make a new layer and draw the outline. That's it. The top layer will be transparent and allow the cloud below should be visible.

 

[PhotoshopNovice]

Thank you so much for the reply! I was trying to do it the layer way (as I couldn't think how else) but it just won't work :-( I must be doing something wrong, I'll keep trying!!

 

[IamSam]

Take this PNG (transparent) file and place it above your cloud layer.

 

[ALB68]

Thank you so much for the reply! I was trying to do it the layer way (as I couldn't think how else) but it just won't work :-( I must be doing something wrong, I'll keep trying!!

You have to be sure your upper layer is transparent. Sam has given you an image here that already has a transparent background. When you make a new layer though it should automatically be transparent. Draw on it with a color and you should still see your cloud on the lower layer.

 

[PhotoshopNovice]

I think I've done it! Probably pretty badly, but I've done something! Thank you so much for you help! I've tried to post a copy to show you but it won't let me at the moment - seems I'm having a bad photo day today!!

 

[Steve]

I'm sorry your post took so long to clear PhotoshopNovice nobody noticed it.