Two layers were involved here. I used a mask to isolate Natalie and pasted her onto the

background. I cut, instead of copied the first image, so when I went to paste her again, all I had

was a silhouette. Since it already looked strange, I thought I'd make her walk to the sky.

I got the idea for the above from "Sam's Teach Yourself Paint Shop Pro in 24 Hours."

I started out with a white background, chose the paintbrush, woodgrain texture. Covered it with hot

wax, added a layer and added the Leo symbol (I am a Leo!). Then I embossed and applied a

Gaussian Blur. Lastly, I set the blending mode of the embossed, blurred symbol to hard light.

This was done the same way only I set the blending mode to darken.