It began with a perfect early fall golfing day. Followed by a little evening carousing at the club house. Then into the car for the drive home through Beamer Alley just before midnight.
There arose a loud bang, squealing of tires followed by another loud bang, then silence. Shortly, an engine revs and more squealing tires then silence. I rush down stairs and look out the door. There are no lights or sounds of anything. Mad Max must have recovered from the bush and driven off.
A couple of minutes later a bunch of cars have stopped and there are headlights everywhere. Time to go look see. A couple of flashlights, a big winter coat and a short hike through the cold air to the scene of commotion. There are four stopped cars and six people milling about. No injuries and the cops are called. The crowd thins and forty five minutes later the cop arrives in an unmarked car with high beams blasting our eyes. By this time we are down to three guys freezing our butts off on a black starry night and getting very cold, did I say cold. The cop is not in a humorous mood and sets about the business of documenting the crash by the light of a tiny flashlight. I can now go home, duty done.
Now let me see if I can document how I got the squiggly arrow from the busted sign onto the tire track leaving the road.
How to Overlay two photos.
Start by loading both photos into the editor.
Using the magic wand area selection tool, select the black squiggle.
Next isolate the selected squiggle onto it’s own layer, Layer> New> Layer via copy.
Now if you look on the layers palette you can see a second layer containing only the squiggle. Left click and drag this thing from the palette and drop it on the Window containing the image of the tire track (This is almost counter intuitive). Where you drop it is where the squiggle ends up. There is no preview that allows accurate dropping of the squiggle. You can now use the Opacity tool to get a fade effect if you want.



As a first responder, that’s my favorite kind of crash: no injuries!
Cool effect with the arrow. I’ll have to try it sometime.