Layers+and+Manipulation+KC

This is the original image of thistles I manipulated.



I cropped the thistle on the far left to add to the picture. This is the cropped image of the thistle.



I added the cropped thistles to the image. As you can see, there are more thistles in the image than before. First, I saved the picture of the thistles from here. Then, I went to pixlr.com and uploaded the image to edit it. After that, I cropped the flower on the far left and saved it as a separate file. I opened that new file and erased the gray borders from the thistle. When the borders were removed, I saved it and re-opened the original image. The cropped thistle had a white border around it when I opened it, so I used the magic wand tool to get rid of it. After I used the wand tool, I took the eraser tool and erased the extra white pixels surrounding the thistle. When the white pixels were fully removed, I copied and pasted the thistles and added more into the picture. Finally, I saved the image.

=Steps=
 * 1.** Saved original image
 * 2.** Upload image to pixlr.com
 * 3.** Open image in advanced editor
 * 4.** Cropped the thistle on the far left
 * 5.** Save cropped thistle in a separate file
 * 6.** Erase the gray borders from the thistle
 * 7.** Save the cropped image
 * 8.** Re-open the original image and open the cropped image in a new layer
 * 9.** Remove the white border with the magic wand tool
 * 10.** Use the eraser to erase the extra white pixels surrounding the thistles
 * 11.** Copy and paste the thistles to add more to the image
 * 12.** Save