Your work with Layers

I would like to congratulate to Kevin for very original idea with the 'Ghost ship'.

Original image

Ghost ship.jpg

This is his receipe:

I used Google Images to find a picture of the sailing ship - it is the Matthew - a replica of John Cabot's famous ship. I pasted it into a new layer and used the eraser tool to rub out most of the background around the ship. The edges were still a bit ragged so I inserted a new dark blue layer under the ship to get good contrast to see the edges of the ship, the blue background is turned off in the PSD file. I thought that a black and white version of the ship might look more spooky so I duplicated the ship layer and found the option Enhance > Convert to Black and White. It looked good but I found the best effect was with both the colour and B&W layers at about 33% opacity. Finally I thought that the scale was a bit wrong - the Matthew needed to be bigger - but it was on two layers.... but I could link the layers together and scale them both at the same time so it wasn't a problem.

Fantastic job, well done Kevin!