Beginning
BY JAMES WRIGHT
The moon drops one or two feathers into the field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.
There they are, the moons young, trying
Their wings.
Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely shadow
Of her face, and now she steps into the air, now she is gone
Wholly, into the air.
I stand alone by an elder tree, I do not dare breathe
Or move.
I listen.
The wheat leans back toward its own darkness,
And I lean toward mine
The moon drops one or two feathers into the field.
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.
There they are, the moons young, trying
Their wings.
Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely shadow
Of her face, and now she steps into the air, now she is gone
Wholly, into the air.
I stand alone by an elder tree, I do not dare breathe
Or move.
I listen.
The wheat leans back toward its own darkness,
And I lean toward mine
Masks are great ways to expose an area without making permanent changes to the image. I found this much easier and more forgiving than a selection tool. You can non-destructively layer, isolating the opacity and color of a single item, by creating a layer mask and using your brush tool to expose the under image.
When you use the brush tool with black, it exposes the under layer.
And when you use white, it puts back the layer on top.
Creating a mask is easy. After you select the images you want to use:
1. Make a rough selection of the image you want on top with the lasso tool.
2. Copy (control C).
3. Paste (control V) on the background image.
4. Make a mask using the layers and mask icon (square with circle inside).
5. Use your tool brush in BLACK to paint away unwanted top part of layer.
You can play around with the opacity of specific areas. And you can isolate filters, like black and white, too.
- to reset colors to black and white, just press D
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