This should be more intuitive

[Frankie]

Okay, I'm either going to have to have the question answered here, or will just uninstall the trial version and move on, because this.should.just.not.be.this.hard. I cannot figure out how to superimpose an image on top of a background image. What I am trying to do is make a blowout of a portion of an image and put it on part of the original image. I cannot figure how to place one image over the top of the other image. I know it should be a new raster layer, but I cannot get any further than that. Seems like I should crop out the portion I want to layer, then open it up as a new layer and position it as appropriate over the original background, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it.

[JoeB]

I assume that you have two images open - the one (Image 1) on which you wish to add a layer for part of an image that you are taking from the other image (Image 2.). Use the selection tool that works best for you to select the part of image from Image 2 to that you wish to add as a layer to Image 1. Copy that selection. Then click on the title bar of Image I and do Paste as New Layer. That should place the portion of Image 2 that you copied onto Image 1 as a new layer.

To help the new layer merge without noticeably defined outlines against Image 1 you will need to both use Anti-Alias with your selection on Image 2 as well as use Feathering - the latter of which will have to be played with to determine how much feathering works best with your images.

[Frankie]

Thank You!

[hartpaul]

I gather from reading your original post that this is approximately what you are trying to do.

To do this I :
1. Loaded the background image.
2. Dragged the layer thumb onto an empty part of the workspace (I always work with Windows > Tabbed documents unticked - can't stand to not see the other images on the workspace and only see their tabbed names).
3. Resized the copy by about 25 - 50 %, then cropped just that pink flower. Right click the layer thumb of the copy and Promote Background Layer.
4. Used Selection tools to select only the pink flower. Selections > Invert , hit the Delete key and the pink flower is now isolated on a transparent layer. Selections > Select None
5. Dragged the layer thumb over onto the original image (fast way of doing a Copy and Paste as New Layer) . So you now have Background (original image) and Layer 1 (the isolated pink flower)
6. Used the Move tool to move that pink flower around to where I wanted it. I could also have used the Pick tool to change its size a bit more or distort the flower a bit.