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Here is a photo I made of myself some years ago using a tripod and timer on my camera. I’m standing in my driveway holding a couple of salmon I caught that morning over on a wild river of the Olympic Peninsula. The Hoh, it was.

I wanted to show off to you my salmon fishing skills (luck). Anyway, I didn’t like the driveway background. It just didn’t set the right mood for the picture message I wanted to convey.

So, I used another photo of a nearby creek a short walk from where I live, and using Paint Shop Pro, layered my fishy photo on top of that. Then I resized myself to try to fit the creek scene.

Then I created a mask of the fishy layer, choosing to show all of the mask. Next, I painted out the driveway part with the color black. The underlying layer of the creek showed where I painted the driveway away.

If for some reason you encounter a background you don’t care for, you can use the layer / mask method to paint in a new one.

Paddy