Basic Blending

Basic Blending in Photoshop

Ok I'm not an expert at Adobe photoshop so I'm sure there are better ways to do what I'm doing but this is the way I do blends.

Example of what can be made with the tutorial.

Blending preview

Supplies:

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For this tutorial you with need three photos or your choice,
I've used the free plugin xero - porcelain you can download it HERE I'm sorry I can't remember which set the porcelain one is in. But its worth getting all of these, I love these filters!

You can drag this arrow down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Script provided by Dynamic Drive.

Let’s Begin:

Step 1 - File - New and use these settings.

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Open your pics and resize if nessasary.

Copy each of your photos onto your new canvas by do the following to each photo.

Select - Select all or (Ctrl A)
Edit - copy or (Crtl C)
Then click on your new canvas and Edit - paste or (Edit V)

Arrange your pics using the move tool working from layer to layer in the layer palette.

So they look something like this.

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Grab your lasso tool and set the feather to 20 px and draw round the overlapping ends like this

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Then making sure your on the correct layer in the layer palette hit the delete key on your keyboard.

Working through your entire image working from layer to layer deleting any bits that don't need to be there.

If you need to reorder your layers then you can drag them into place on the layer palette.

You should end up with something like this

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Right Click on your layer palette and flatten Image.

Breathe a sigh of relief, you've done the hardest bit.

Ok now for as bit of fiddling just to finish it off.

ok filters - xero - porcelain - leave the standard settings and click ok
(I use this to give the pics a soft look about them)

Right click your layer palette and duplicate layer, change the blend mode to screen and lower the opacity to 34% or whatever looks good, It always varies from one blend to another.

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Ok now to add a border.

Image - Canvas size

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Add your text and then right click your layer palette and Flatten Image.

Yay your done!

Any problems please ask.

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