Marionberries

My daughter loves Marionberries. She can pick them faster than I can. She picks two handed and is great at spotting fresh berries. She will do it all for the promise of a few berries and some Marionberry jam at the end of it. So I thought updating this photo would be fun. I saw someone at our local fair do something similar with a bowl of Marshmallows and some faces.



How this was done. Well it was easy of course.

1. I opened up the Marionberry picture and cropped it so that mainly the berry was showing.
   
2. Separately I opened up a picture of my daughter that was nice and bright.
   
3. I resized the picture so my daughters face would fit nicely in an individual round berry section.
   
4. I then used the polygon outline tool from the toolbar to select just around my daughters face.
   
5. I then chose Select -- Modify -- Feather and chose 2-4 pixels to soften the edges of the selection.
   
6. I then copied (CTRL-C) the image.
   
7. Then I clicked on the berry image and pasted (CTRL-V) the image. I moved the image onto a round berry section. And I adjusted the layer to an opacity I liked, say 60% (an opacity that didn't stand out to much, but didn't blur too much into the picture).
   
8. I repeated steps 5-7 until I filled up most of a Marionberry. I sometimes adjusted the Select -- Modify to select a smaller image that would fit on different sections of the berry better. I sometimes changed the opacity.
   
9. I merged all layers and saved the image.