Need Help with Photo Layering

[Former_Member]

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get the photos into the main working area of the screen. How do I do that? I have paint.net installed and when I Open to get my photo, it becomes the background layer even after I added two or more new layers.

I have a very old version of photoshop elements which I can install on this computer if needed.

I was looking at that splashup.com (or something like that) and still struggle with those first few steps.

My goal is simple--I just want to put my paintings "on a wall," then a separate photo with my paintings "in a room." I have a photo of a wall, of a room, and of course, my paintings.

The onlly photo thing I can get to work, besides picnik.com which I love but doesn't offer layers that I can find anyway, is fotoflexer.com. I'm happy just using that if worse comes to worse but I am finding that fotoflexer is making my end photo look a bit blurry. I just realized this, that many of my photos suck big time when in reality, the paintings are quite pretty.

Also, I am confused about photo sizing and about photo cropping using any program other than picnik or fotoflexer to crop.

It's a mess, any help will be greatly appreciated.

TIA.

[Former_Member]

I guess I just want my photos to look as professional as many of the other artist's photos but just can't figure it out on my own.

[Former_Member]

hi,

i'm not familiar with the software other than photoshop, though i think photoshop elements should have similar features.

you could try to save the painting image as a gif with the background being transparent. that way, when you stack it on top of an image of a "room" or a "wall" only the image will float around.

you can also crop the painting to just the painting and cut and past it into the "room" or the "wall" background and place it where you would like it.

:)