We’ve had a bit of trouble with the trees… we only have a few- the palms are easier to make because they have bigger leaves. To make parts of the leaves transparent we had to create an alpha channel, and delete parts of the texture that weren’t transparent from this channel (the white areas are the areas that have texture). We then had to save the files as targas (originally we were saving them as .png files with a transparent background- this didn’t work). For a cleaner selection Shazy found that (apple) + (click on picture of what you want selected in layer panel) works well.
When we tried to make trees that weren’t palms (above), it didn’t look convincing at all. I tried seperate pieces and then tried overlapping the peices… we gave up in the end, and stuck to palms.
