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Add birds to photos in Photoshop, combine pictures and make transparent background.

This is a fun tutorial. When you lot have a great mural photo, you tin actually add life to it by adding a flock of birds. You don't take to worry about cut out each bird either, this tutorial shows yous how to easily hibernate the groundwork and let the silhouette show through.

Offset up, you lot will demand a background photo and a photograph or 2 of birds. I similar to deport a photographic camera and I'one thousand very often shooting birds and textures to build up my library. If you are doing much work in Photoshop, its also great to have a practiced source of images and other assets you can pull from. One that I really recommend is Envato Elements. For one depression subscription, I have access to millions of photos, templates, videos an so much more. I go unlimited downloads and full commercial rights.

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Both of these Photos are from Envato Elements. Get-go is an image of iceland. Obviously, you'll be using your own epitome.

Choose File>open to open both images in Photoshop)

Hither is an image of birds in the sky.

Choose the Rectangular marquee tool.

Elevate a option around the birds you want to employ.

Choose the move tool (five).

Drag the pick of the birds up to the tab of the other paradigm to motility them to. Wait for the prototype to open and and then release the mouse in the new window,

The video above shows this step (how to combine images in Photoshop)

You volition see your pick of birds appear on the new document.

I purposely chose a more hard image to work with, often your sky will exist gray, white or blue.

If there is color in your sky, press Ctrl+Shift+U / Cmd+Shift+U on mac (Epitome>adjustments>desaturate.

This will remove the color from the selected layer.

How to make the background transparent

At present, we need to hide the background and just prove the birds against transparency.

There are lots of ways to practice this and I show you other ways in other tutorials, but here is the best way for this type of prototype.

In the Layer's panel. where it says Normal, click and choose Darken from the menu. This changes to Darken blending mode, which hides white.

If your sky is white, it will at present exist invisible.

If it's gray, exercise this to make the sky transparent.

Press Ctrl/Cmd+L for Levels.

Slide the white triangle to the left until the bright pixels (heaven) disappears.

Click ok, its that easy!

With the movement tool, (v). Agree Down the Alt (windows)/Selection (Mac) key and elevate out copies of the birds if you want.

I hope you enjoyed this quick fiddling tutorial. Its always fun to do these types of tutorials.

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Colin

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