Hi @capture
I like [USER=109010]@Rich54[/USER]'s approach
Here is another way that can be done with a mouse click and clicking a keyboard shortcut for a very short Action. I will also mention a more involved way to do this with a single mouse click yet not sure its worth the overhead.
Here is the mouse click and then keyboard shortcut approach.
Note it helps to create a square marque tool preset for a fixed size 1 pixel by 1 pixel selection.]
- Copy the tree, bush, or other item into the clipboard (need transparent background)
- Set or load the tool preset to a 1px x 1px square
- Click the location in your image where you want the tree (or other pasted). This places a 1pxx1px selection
The nest two steps are put into an action and activated by have a keyboard shortcut assigned to the Action
- Place the Clipboard using Edit > Paste Special > Paste Into which is also keyboard shortcut Shift+Option+Cmd+V (Shift+Alt+Ctrl+V on a PC)
(this step pastes the clipboard into the image centered at the 1px x 1px slection
- Then use the command Layer > Layer Mask > Delete to delete the 1px x 1px Layer Mask that was created
At this point the cliploard image is place exactly where you had clicked on the image. The image is still in the Clipboard so you can repeat the above steps over and over which is basically just pointer click and Action keyboard shortcut and its placed.
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Now with a bit more investment in time, this could be automated down to just clicking on the image using the File > Scripts > Scripts Event Manager.
With this tool, you can have Photoshop intercept a trackpad or mouse click and run the Action already created. You manually turn the Script Manager on, do a bunch of trees with single clicks and then turn off the Scripts Event Manager. Not sure that is worth the effort given the above technique so will not go into any details at this point as its a bit more involved
I did try the first approach and it worked just fine.
Just another approach to consider and hope this helps
John Wheeler
