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Step 10: The next element to move across to

the phone image is the tower. Go back to the

image with the tower in focus and load the

tower selection, as we did with the screen selec-

tion, by navigating to Select>Load Selection, but

this time choosing the tower.jpg document and

the tower Channel. Click OK to close the dialog,

and then press Command-C (PC: Ctrl-C) to copy

the selected tower.

Step 11: We can now switch back to the image

with the phone and paste the tower into the

image. If you shot both images on a tripod as

I did here, you can go to Edit >Paste Special>

Paste in Place and the tower will be pasted in

exactly the same position from which you copied

it, which will line it up perfectly with the copied

portion of the building in the phone. If the

alignment is off, you can easily align the pasted

layer by lowering its Opacity in the Layers panel,

zooming in, and using the Move tool (V) to line

it up correctly. Return its Opacity back to 100%

when you’re done.

Step 12: Looking at the pasted tower, we’ve

fallen outside the edges of our phone screen, so

our next task is to erase the edges of the tower

that fall outside the screen. To do this, we need

to load the screen selection again the same

way we did in Step 7, but in the next step we’ll

be working outside the screen, so we need to

invert the selection with Shift-Command-I (PC:

Shift-Ctrl-I).