Help with Blends, in PS CS3 Options

[vogueXdirge]

I'm REALLY wanting to make blends like this by Nikkiness from the HP Boards:



But the problem is I haven't done many before and I don't really know a good technique to doing them.

I've looked over a few of the tutorials on blends on this site but none of them really tell me how to get the effect I like (example above).

This is what I got when I tried:



What I dis is I resized the images and then laid them on top of each other, then I took the eraser and erased the parts that were overlapping.

My question is: Are there anmy tutorials or tips & tricks that you could give me?

[vintage-toile]

the images you have chosen don't flow. choose a set of images which almost tell a story in one image.
like, say you had a female. one looking down at the floor, one looking over her shoulder and then looking behind her back.
you would need to place these in such a way so it flows showing a "still movement", if that makes sense? theyre normally the best ones.
so it would be nice to move these images about until you think they flow.
once this is done, you blend them together with the eraser, and if with a woman there is any hair which looks ultimately flat, take a new canvas sized 50x50, and then dot about a small brush. highlight this image with the selection tool, and then click on edit -> define brush preset and click OK.
then go into your blend, click on the smudge tool and choose this brush. then whisp it accross the hair for a flyaway effect.
this works nicely for guys as well but its bad to over do it i guess.
then start working more on the layers and merging them, perhaps add some masks and draw a black to white gradient accross it [this is what i did in my most recent div banner so the skirt of the dress flows].
then add in some brushses, text, a little bit of glow and you're done.

does that help...there's way too much information there i swear.