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With your Scooby layer active in the layers window, click the "add layer mask" button at the bottom left, second one in:
Select your paintbrush tool (key b). Limit your colors to black and white, which they should be set to by default since you are in layer mask mode. Paint with black, and you can see the layer below. Paint with white over a masked area, and you bring back the pixels you had masked out. It's that easy. You could mess with using shades of gray, but let's keep it simple. So paint with black around the outside of Scooby's face. Make sure in the layers window that the mask layer is active, and that your brush mode is set to normal and at 100% opacity. Use (key x) to toggle between black and white.
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Once the mask is done, throw away the gray layer, or move it to the bottom of the layers window. Click the scooby layer (not the mask layer) and switch your brush mode to color. Use the eyedropper (key i) to select one of the darker shades of red from Spider-man's uniform. I used a color with the following RGB values: R 202 G4 B5 Paint over Scooby's face, avoiding the eyes, nose and mouth. Since you have a layer mask, you don't even have to worry about painting outside the lines. The end result is not going to be a perfect match color-wise, but that's okay. We're just roughing things out at this point.
Now we're getting somewhere. Use the move tool to place Scooby's face over Spider-man's face. If we reduce the opacity of the scooby layer to 50%, we can see just how the two faces match up.
Notice that the curve at the top of Scooby's head matches quite nicely with the curve of Spider-man's head. Also the outline of the inside of Scooby's left (our right) eye is along the same angle as the one line of the webbing on Spider-man's face. These are going to be the two points where we will focus when we determine the final placement of the scooby layer. First, we need to get the size and angle right. Use the transform tool (ctrl-t) to shrink Scooby's head a little more if necessary. With the transform tool still active, rotate Scooby's head a little bit counter-clockwise, paying close attention to the alignment of the eye and the top of the head.
Page 8: Back to the Mask Now it's time to get some of that web pattern from Spider-man onto Scooby's face. In the layers window, click on the mask on the scooby layer. Select the paintbrush and make sure it is in normal mode and at 100% opacity. If you paint with black, you will reveal the Spider-man layer below, and the webbing appears to be on Scooby's face now. Play with the layer opacity settings in the layers window as you do this, bringing it up to 100% to see the full effect, and working at a lower opacity to paint the mask. I found an opacity setting of 70% about right for the painting part. Don't paint all the way up to the mouth and nose, but go ahead and get right up to the eyes. At this point, you might realize that Scooby's right (our left) eye also comes close to matching up with a line of the webbing. So let's mask that part out as well. Right now, the face should look something like this:
Now switch the brush opacity to 35% and mask out the rest of the area beneath the nose and around the mouth. The webbing is very white here, but by retaining some of the red in the scooby layer, we manage to tone it down.
Now take a moment to appreciate how lucky we are. Scooby's right eye and his nose cover Spidey's one big white eye almost completely. Unfortunately, that other, even larger, big white eye needs to be taken care of. Let's take care of it then.
Page 9: Eye Repair This is going to be a bit of a chore, but stick with me. We're almost done. Turn up the opacity on the scooby layer to 100% and then click the eyeball icon to the left in the layers window to make it disappear. Activate the spider-man layer by clicking on it. Use the polygonal lasso tool (key l, shift-l to scroll through the different lassos) to select portions from other parts of Spider-man's face that can be used to cover the eye. This isn't going to work for the entire eye, but for now we can cover part of it this way. When you have selected an area, use the move tool and alt-option drag the selection where you want it. Use the transform tool to rotate it into place. file:///C|/Worth1000/63.htm (3 van 5)13-6-2006 23:19:06