> Combining the two photographs (child's face and tree, petanque and Doge). Marilyn You thinking of offering this service to your clients? :o) OK: Photoshop 5 to be precise. No rocket science: no special tricks If you are interested: for Ben/Tree I've ZIP-ed up a small version of the PSD file you can grab from http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/photoforum/xmas/bentree.zip If you look at the layers you can see ... In both cases it's a simple copy-paste of the petanque/face onto the palace/tree to form a second layer. Then a crude bit of eraser-work to get rid of the bits of the upper layer I didn't want. For both it took a bit of Edit-Transorm-Distort to get the bits in the right place. I set the face to 50% opacity before the distort so I could see Peeter's tree's eye and mouth through it. Ben's head had to be rotated slightly and vertically stretched to get full alignment. Finally I just finished with a lot of gentle eraser work (10% effect) around the edges till I got the effect I was after. Bob
