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?

[Gigi]

Depends on what kind of blending you want to achieve...the first blend isn't so much made by "blending" the images together, but it's more of a cut-out. You can see that the backgrounds don't blend together, instead they share the same background. If you're a beginner I'd just stick with using the eraser brush. It's a whole lot easier. There's not much use to use feathering except for a small amount (maybe 5 px), but you can achieve that kind of look easily with a softer brush.

If you really want to get precise, the pen tool is the best bet, but it's time-consuming and sort of hard to work with.

However, if you actually want to mesh two images together, you'll have to use feathering of at least 10 px. For a large image it may go up to 50 px, but it's something that you'll have to try out.

I'm also curious, what is that black blob?

[vogueXdirge]

I'm also curious, what is that black blob?

In the pictures he is cleaning a window, and that black blod is the rag.

XD

hahaha

thank you to everyone who posted!
I will try it out a few ways and see what works well.

THese are kind of the effects I really want to do:











I love this sig makers work!
It's all amazing.