Photo Discussion
Category: Friendly Praise Archive

What was done:
Selected the body of the green peahen for cutting and pasting but without the 'comb,' which gave me great difficulties due to the size and closeness of the pixels. Then, I selected the “brush” and using transform scaled and rotated it into position. For the comb, itself, I isolated and selected some of the easier interior portions, and saving them as an alpha channel on their own, pasted them below the “brush.” At 600%, using the pencil tool, the “brush” was penciled into position. At viewing range, online, it looked the same. But, of course, it cannot be enlarged.

Perhaps, someday I'll learn how this can be done without the collapsing of the interior paths during the selection process. But for now, this is the best I can do in digital darkroom. This image will be revisited as my skills increase.