Can one of you Photoshop experts please tell me in simple terms how to cut from one photograph and paste in another? Nothing sinister - I just want to superimpose a photo of a wind turbine on a location for a planning application.

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Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

sewinbasher you have a PM.

Sewin, simply open both images in photoshop. Select the lasso or magnetic lasso (this will prob be best as you will have plenty of contrast and a well defined edge between the turbine and the sky for the magnetic lasso to 'cling' to) anyway, when the turbine is selected and the lasso has joined up, go to edit > copy then go to your other image click on it somewhere to select it and make it 'live' then go to edit > paste. the turbine will appear in the image and you can move it around with the pointer or 'move' tool. When you are happy with the position, make any 'adjustments' (contrast,levels etc) and then go to layer-flatten image. Job done.

Thanks guys - your help is much appreciated.

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“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”

Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

If you send me the 2 files I'll do it for you this afternoon

Would only take a few minutes.

Mike

Learn to use the 'extract' filter. It's your friend, especially on furry edges.

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutoria...out/cutout.htm

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For the cleanest selection, a clipping path is required with a feather radius of 1 pixel to give you a crisp edge...

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Gillaroo

A quick vote of public thanks to all those who offered public and private advice on resolving this problem for me. It's what makes the forum so good.

Thanks again to Scratch, Joey1, Gillaroo, and Malcolm.

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“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”

Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary