Help in placing object behind trees

[Deusvult1990]

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.

Here's image of the forest I have:

https://ibb.co/DDMFP2X


I want to place this object behind the trees, on the far side, so it's barely visible (blur it with the foggy lightning too)

https://ibb.co/JkSVY5m


However, I encountered problems immediately as I have problems getting the "object" behind the trees - magic wand doesn't help as it the fog messes up tree silhouettes to select them and the copypaste above the "object".

Should I use a mask? If yes, what kind of and how? (I know how to create masks, but don't understand how to use this function in this case if it is even applicable at all)

Please, point me in a direction of a guide on how this is done or explain yourself - I appreciate ANY help
Thank you!

[tmanni]

A video tutorial by rich2005 here https://youtu.be/QH_o0P_i0Ks

[CtrlAltDel]

(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.

Video

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:

[sallyanne]

(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.

Here's image of the forest I have:

https://ibb.co/DDMFP2X


I want to place this object behind the trees, on the far side, so it's barely visible (blur it with the foggy lightning too)

https://ibb.co/JkSVY5m


However, I encountered problems immediately as I have problems getting the "object" behind the trees - magic wand doesn't help as it the fog messes up tree silhouettes to select them and the copypaste above the "object".

Should I use a mask? If yes, what kind of and how? (I know how to create masks, but don't understand how to use this function in this case if it is even applicable at all)

Please, point me in a direction of a guide on how this is done or explain yourself - I appreciate ANY help
Thank you!

This can be done if you have two layers of the forest and one layer of the house.

1. Open the forest and duplicate the layer.

2. Open the house as a layer and bring it down so it is in the middle of the two forest layers.

3. Then changing the layer mode to addition while you have the top layer selected and you will get this

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[rich2005]

Quote:..I want to place this object behind the trees, on the far side, so it's barely visible (blur it with the foggy lightning too).....snip.....Should I use a mask? If yes, what kind of and how?

I would use a mask, For this I used two masks.  Still not perfect, those very faded trees

   

How I got there https://youtu.be/GIhyx1A3wQY duration 2 and a bit minutes.

[Deusvult1990]

I appreciate all the answers!
In the end I did it the hard way by cutting out the space between the trees (with the help of high contrast mask which made it easier) and then applying some transparency and other tricks suggested here.

End result if anyone is curious: 
https://ibb.co/QMbW9nF

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(06-04-2022, 09:04 PM)Deusvult1990 Wrote: I appreciate all the answers!
In the end I did it the hard way by cutting out the space between the trees (with the help of high contrast mask which made it easier) and then applying some transparency and other tricks suggested here.

End result if anyone is curious: 
https://ibb.co/QMbW9nF

Deusvult, that's another way to go with it and I think it looks good.