Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0 Classroom in a Book®

Adding layers to complete the effect

Now, just for fun, you’ll see how creating the selection with the pen tool can help you achieve interesting effects in an image. Because you’ve now isolated the space ship, you can create an exact duplicate of the selection on a new layer. Then, when you add a new object to a layer between the original layer and the duplicate saucer layer, that new object appears to be between the saucer and the starry sky background.

1.	In the Layers palette, make sure that the background layer is selected, so that you see the selection outline in the image window. If you deselected it, you need to repeat the previous procedure (“Converting paths to selections” on page 285).
2.	Choose Layer > New > Layer Via Copy. A new ...