Help in placing object behind trees

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(06-03-2022, 02:38 AM)Deusvult1990 Wrote: Hi!
I am very VERY new to GIMP, so I apologize ahead for dumb questions.
I tried looking for youtube guides on my problem, but couldn't find anything useful.

If this:



is anything close to what you wanted, it is not hard to achieve. Resize your house layer first.  After this,  you will need to select your house layer and go to layer-transparency-color to alpha and select that option.  After this, adjust the house layer opacity to how you like it.  In the example above, the opacity is set at 78 percent.

If the vague outline of the house on the tree trunk, on the far left,  bothers you it can be erased by adding a white layer mask to the house layer and erase it out with the eraser tool while having the active foreground color set to white.  That has been done in the example.

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If it's a little too dull for your taste, you can give it more zing by duplicating the forest image by right clicking on the forest image and selecting duplicate.  Move the duplicate to the top and set the mode as grain merge with an opacity of around 45%.

Example: