How to Paint Over Another Image ?

[Nora Laiken]

This is a bit hard to express.
Obviously, one can put a source image on the canvas and then paint over it with the same source image. Or, one can put a solid color on the canvas and paint over it using the source image, But how does one do the following:
 1. Image #1 is the source image, say a flower.
2. Image # 2, say a special underpainting , exists outside SA.
How do I import #2 and put it on the canvas so that it serves as a background or under-painting upon which the source image flower will be painted ? I would rather do this than use a solid color,

[David Buckle]

Start with your source image to set the canvas size but leave the canvas white. Then change the source to the back ground image. you can paint it in or set the cavas to souce image. Then change the source to image #1 an paint it in. You should make the images the same size before bring them in so that the background is not distorted. You can also try painting on different layers then blending them together. Hope this helps.

[Synthetik]

You have a few different options. You can always swap between different source images when working on a studio artist canvas. So you could just load a source image, drag and drop it on the canvas, then load a different source image and then start painting with the second source image. You could also paint in the fist image (or run it through an image processing effect or whatever), then switch to a different source image, and then paint in the second source image.

You can also directly import an image as the canvas by either drag and drop it onto the canvas, or by running the File : Import : Open New Canvas menu command.

[Nora Laiken]

This works well. Thank you again for the great support.