Optimised clipping and special joiningh

We are going to produce a photomontage using some of the very interesting functions of PhotoFiltre.
After understanding these tou will be able to achieve some astonishing special effects.

Begin by downloading the following two images, then open them in PhotoFiltre.
A. Clipping a feline
	1. Rapidly select the feline with the lasso tool. You can leave a small margin round the animal. 2. Menu: Edit / Optimized Clipping. - Find Edges - Tolerance 15, Both. - Effect - Antialiasing. - Create a new image.. 3. Tool: Paintbrush/Round/Small size / Blurred/soft / White. Use the paintbrush to delete the remainder of the background which exists around the feline : a bit like a rubber.
B. Create a mask from an image
	1. Duplicate the image of the "clipped" feline ( Image / Duplicate or Ctrl+U) We are going to use this copy to make a mask.. 2. Menu : Image / Transparency Mask. White / Tolerance 0 / Antiliasing Then copy this mask. (Edit/Copy or Right-click+copy or CTRL+C). Select the image of the "clipped" feline . 3. Edit / Paste spécial / Assemble the paste/ Right.
C. Pasting the associated mask
	1. Select the image of the "arche" and duplicate it. We are going to use this copy later to select and copy a part of the scenery. 2. Select the mask associated with the Copy command (B3 above) and copy to the Clipboard. 3. Select the original image of the arche, then: Menu / Paste Special / Image with linked mask. The feline is now in the scenery of the arche but over-size; we are going to reduce it.. 4. Reduce the size of the feline by holding down the Shift Key (to keep the proportions unchanged) and redimensioning by reducing from one of the corners. Choose an appropriate size and position, such that the animal is more than double the width of the pillar on the left of the arch. Menu: Edit / Validate Paste.
D. Special effects
	1. Select the original of the arch and the lasso tool. Draw round the approx. 3/4 of the left-hand pillar of the arch as accurately as possible; above all include only the rock in the selection (no sky). You can work with zoom at 200%. 2. Copy this selection (right-click + copy, or Ctrl+C). The selection from the pillar is now on the clipboard.. 3. Select the arch image with the animal and paste the pillar selection in front of the feline, positioning it exactly on the image so as to match the pillar underneath. The animal seems to be lying in wait behind the pillar. The minuscule tourist (on the left) observes as well. 4. Menu: Edit / Validate Paste
Click here to see the final result !

Copyright Pascal Dehont ------translation by Alastair N. ROSS