Silhouette Layout Part 2 Extracting the Photo & Completing the Layout Open 2 Scrapbook Papers that you would like use in the layout. Create duplicates of both and close originals. Make sure they are complimentary to each other. Preferably one should patterned and the other solid. Click on your solid paper and drag it onto your patterned paper to create a new layer. You now have two layers like so...
Okay back to our layer mask. Switch from channels back to layers. and create a new layer. Flood fill white. Now switch back to channels. Click on your alpha layer. Click the first button to Load Channel as Selection.
Switch back to your layers and click on the new layer that you made. Select Inverse or Shift + Ctrl + I Now flood fill selection with black. Ctrl + D to deselect. Drag this completed layer to your working images. Position the Image in the upper left hand corner. You can actually play with this image. Enlarge it to create a really large silhouette or center it. Do what you think looks best. Here's mine so far
Use your magicwand to click inside the black area to select it. Now click on the eye to close this layer. Click on Layer 1 (your solid paper) to activate it. Be sure your Foreground Color is set to Black and your Background Color set to white. Now with your image still selected click the Layer Mask button to create a layer on this layer
Once you've clicked the layer mask button you should have this. Right click on your layer mask and click apply mask.
So nifty! You've got your silhouette. Now we are going to make the silhouette pop. Duplicate the silhouette layer. Use your magic wand and click anywhere outside of the image. Flood fill selected with black. Now open your Layer Style Palette.
For your innerglow use the eyedropper to select a complimentary color from your image. 
Click ok. Now click on the original masked layer to activate it Open your layerstyle pallette and applies these settings 
Here is your layout now 
Now go back to the original image that you created a mask on. Close off the mask you created and click on the original layer.
Switch to Channels. Click to Load Channel as Selection
Switch back to Layers. Click on your Photo layer to activate it. Select Inverse or Shift+Ctrl+I. Ctrl+C to copy Go back to your Layout and Ctrl+V to paste the image as a new layer. Position your image where you want it. I am going to reverse my image
Now you have a perfect mask. Or at least I hope you do. You have completed Part 1 of this tutorial. You now know how to create images masks from your photos. 
This pretty much concludes the tutorial. But don't stop there adorn your layout with some elements, text, journaling or whatever else you'd like to add. Here is my completed layout: 
Credits: Digital Scrap Kit is That Boy's Got Spunk by Veronica Spriggs & Michelle Yiap
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