Montage Page Backgrounds
To complete this tutorial you will need the following images:
1. Open a canvas that is 1000 wide by 550 high. insert a new layer. Hit
your d key and use the paint bucket tool to fill the new layer with black.
2. Insert a layer. Select your rectangular marquee with options set to
style of fixed size 1000 wide by 300 high. Click at about 300 pixels down on
the left edge of the canvas.
3. click Edit=> Stroke.
- 2 pixel
- white
- outside
- normal
- opacity = 100%
 4.
Open the Picture of the church and use the move tool to drag a copy onto
your canvas. Position it so it is centered between the white lines and half
way off the canvas on the left.
5. Use the verticle sing column marquee to select one column
 of
pixels on the right side of this image. Select the move tools with bounding
box option checked to scale this selection so it goes completely to
the far right side of the canvas.
Click Filter=>Blur=> Gausian Blur set at 3.0 pixels.
6. Highlight your white line layer. Select the magic wand. Click between
the white lines (middle). Click back on the church layer and hit your mask
button on the bottom of the canvas.
 Set
this layer to Linear Light mode at 60% opacity.
7.Open the waterfall image. Use the move tool to drag a copy of the
waterfall over to your canvas. Position it so it is butted up to the left.
Use the lasso tool set to 5 pixel feather to select out the waterfall. On
your layers panel click add layer mask.
 Click
back on the lines layer and use your magic wand to select the center between
the lines. Click Select=> inverse. Click back on the waterfalls layer and
make sure the mask is active. Use your rectangular marquee with your alt key
held down to mark out the bottom selection and remove it from the selection.
Hit your d key followed by your x key and fill the top selection only
with black. Set the waterfalls layer to pin light mode and 60% opacity
 8.
Open your cloud image. Use your move tool to drag a copy of this image onto
your canvas. Click Edit=> Transform=> Perspective. Bring the left corner
handles together to meet. adjust the position and size as in the picture on
the right. Right click on the mask on the church layer and set selection to
mask. Click back on your clouds layer and apply layer mask.Set the mode of
this layer to screen mode at 70% opacity. Click Layer=> arrange=> send
backward.
9. Click on your top layer. Open the Eagle image. Use your move tool to
move the eagle image to your canvas. Click Edit=> transform=> Flip
horizontal. Use your magic wand with a tolerence of 50 to select the blue
around the eagle. Click Select=> inverse. Apply a layer mask. Select
your move tool with bounding boxes displayed and rotate the image -30
degrees. Position him in the upper right over the clouds overlapping the top
white line a little.
10. Cleaning up the falls= click back on the falls layer, click on the
falls layer mask. using a black, 100 pixel soft brush, clean up the bottom
right side of the falls mask to cover the rough edges.
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