nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Find your background and duplicate the layer, make a selection of where you want to put your house and press Ctrl and j to make a layer on the selection. You do not move this layer all as it fits perfect to the background.. Place your house in a new layer and position it between the selection you made and the background copy. Make sure you have the auto select ticked at the top left hand side, select the cut out layer from the layer palette and take the opacity down so you can see the house and the cutout together. resize the house to fit to your liking and they put a mask on the cutout layer. by using a brush with a feathered edge you can mask parts of the cut out so the house looks to be inside the roots or what ever you use as your background layer. By putting up the opacity you can see how it is looking and if needed resize and move. When you have the house as you want put the opacity of the cut out back to 100. I did take the brightness of the house down a bit to make it look as though it was in the shadows..Using a mask makes it easier to me as you can always put back what you have taken out if needed.. I always work on a duplicate layer then if things do go wrong you can delete layers and not have to get the original picture back..With the pictures I hope you can understand how I did it...

Make new layer

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add house 4 layers.

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House between the cut out and background..

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low opacity on cut out

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cropped and finished..

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RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

Thanks for showing us how you did it.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Excellent work, Val.
--Bob

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

You are welcome, look forwards to seeing more fairy houses...

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Thank you very much Bob,

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

now you have spoiled it...........I believed it was a genuine FAIRY house! groan.

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

So sorry dancers, but did you notice this is a different house, the other was a REAL fairy house..

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

aha! I missed that..my old eyes are not what they were!

Sylvias Loc: North Yorkshire England

Very interesting information Val, love the little red fairy house.

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Thank you Sylvia, I posted a picture and Jack (Curmudgeon) asked me how I did it..

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Thank you very much Jack for the thumbups..

angler Loc: StHelens England

Nice work Val.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very well done, Val.

Susan yamakawa

I noticed that and wondered 😄I too was disappointed but someone has explained layering to me