I did a very quick social distance photo with Gus O’Hara in his Spar shop on Vernon Avenue to show that “Lasting Scars” is available.

As I am an experienced Photoshop user and well versed in composites and merging photographs I was able to blend the two photos below:

Social Distance Photo Lenny Brando
Local author Lenny Brando in O’Hara’s Spar Store, Clontarf.
Social Distance Photo Lenny Brando
Gus O’Hara in O’Hara’s Spar Store, Clontarf.

I isolated Gus from the second photo using Photoshop and created this:

Social Distance Photo Lenny Brando
Gus with the background erased.

It shows as a white background above, but in reality it is transparent, (I used the quick select tool in PS, created a rough layer and then cleaned up the cut out with the eraser on hard brush). I then resized the cutout, dropped it as a layer onto the top photo, then user a masked layer to erase part of Gus so it looked like he was behind me.

Social Distance Photo Lenny Brando
Local author Lenny Brando (Brendan Lyon) with Gus O’Hara in O’Hara’s Spar Store, Clontarf. This is a composite photo.