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Author: Cathy_Sheeter, Contributing Editor
| Now we have two images which are the same size.
The next thing we need to do is to turn on the "layers" palette. It will be found under Window>Layers. |  |
| Now that you have your layers palette turned on,
you can move it out of the way, if needed, by clicking and dragging it. The next thing we want to do is duplicate our sketch. Go to Image>Duplicate. This will create an identical image of your resized sketch. |  |
 | Click on your reference photo with your mouse. Now hit Ctrl+A (select all) and then Ctrl+C (copy). Now click your mouse on your duplicated sketch and hit Ctrl+V (paste). It will look like your sketch has disappeared, but it is just under the photo. At this point if you look at your layer palette it will show two small images, the photo and the sketch. |  |
 | Now we need to make it so that we can see both our sketch and the reference photo. We do this with the opacity slider found in the layers palette. Make sure that you have selected the top layer, your photo, before adjusting. Clicking in the opacity percent box will pop up a slider. Adjust to the left until both layers can be seen well. I find this is usually between 30 and 50% opacity depending on how dark your photo and sketch are. |  |
| Usually when you layer the photo on top of your sketch they will not line up perfectly. Move the top layer until they line up. Since certain aspects of your drawing will likely not line up perfectly my preference is to line up a key characteristic and adjust things from there. With animals and people this is usually the eyes. |  |
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