Placing an image within another image

[Bigfish]

Right bare with me.

I have a picture of a Bull which is in the foreground of the pic and trees/bushes in the background. I want to place a road sign between the tree/bushes and behind the bulls horns to give the effect the bull is walking past the sign. I'm stumped. Hope this makes sense.

Any ideas appreciated.

Ta

 

[iDad]

you'll need to work with layers create each layer by selecting what you want, in front and behind layer, locate each image where it should be. It's very hard to explain without seeing the image to manipulate but if you are doing it yourself I suggest studying layers and how they work.

 

[Bigfish]

Thanks for the reply iDad. Here are the two pics in question. I thought I'd post them up just to see how posting pics works here at Gurus two.

Background layer.


And this sign which I want to sit behind the Bulls horns.


I can only seem to get the sign to sit infront of the bulls horns. The sign won't be this big as I'll scale it way down using free transform.

Cheers.

 

[SeniorS]

1. Copy that sign on image with bull. Place it where you want it. Remember which parts of bull want to be in front of sign.
2. Turn that new layer visibilty off.
2. With lasso tool (magic wand etc.) select those bull parts which have to be before sign.Don't need to select whole bull.
3. Go to layer with bull.
4. Press CTRL+J. New layer will apear.
5. Put that layer at top of all others layers.
6. Swith layer with sign visibily on.

Done.

If bull parts looks too shurp-cut then before CTRL+J, give selection some feather.

 

[Bigfish]

Thanks very much seniorS. I'll give that a go and let you know how I got on.

Ta

 

[Bigfish]

It worked. I did it a couple of times to try and work out what was happening. In effect I'm cutting a section of the bulls horns and then pasting it over the top with the new layer.

I knew there was good reason to join here. Thanks alot seniorS!

 

[iDad]

lets see your attempt. way to go dude!

 

[hawkeye]

There are usually more than one way to do the same thing in PS. Here is another:

Open both images, with move tool Ctl+V drag the sign onto the bull image.
Ctrl+T to transform and move the sign into place.
Add a layer mask to the sign layer, paint with black on the mask to hide parts of sign that are behind the bull, paint with white to reveal (correct mistakes). (Lower the opacity of the sign layer to see the layer below while painting.)

 

[Bigfish]

Here it is. Now I need to find a sign - post

 

[iDad]

wasn't so hard, was it keep at it you'll only get better!..........

 

[SeniorS]

Looks normal and yeah with post it will not look so spooky ... NLO sign

 

[Bigfish]

Thanks Hawkeye. I'll try that method too.

Cheers