| Exercise Crane 1 | |
| 1 | Open crane.jpg from crane folder |
| 2 | Create New adjustment layer with
Levels Move middle triangle to the right observing changes of the crane's density |
| 3 | Create blank new layer |
| 4 | With black Brush Tool black out everything around the crane |
| 5 | Reduce opacity to about 10% |
| 6 | Use Healing Brush to fix the white spot on the grass (right bottom corner) |
| Summary: To selectively darken some part of your image, you can create a blank new layer, paint desired area with black, and then reduce layer opacity to about 10% |
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| Crane 2 | |
| 1 | Open crane2.jpg |
| 2 | With Magic Wand select entire background, Feather by 1 pixel (Select > Feather) and inverse selection (Select > Inverse) |
| 3 | Open background.jpg |
| 4 | Window > Arrange > Tile |
| 5 | With Move Tool drag crane into background image |
| 6 | Reduce size of the crane by command Edit > Free Transform (hold shift key while dragging) |