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?

[absinthe]

You need to work on spacing out your images, and creating continuity in the background.

If you notice, all the blends you provided as blends you'd like to create don't have images overlapping and have either the same or similar backgrounds.

It's much harder to blend an image with a white background, with an image with a black background vs blending an image with similar backgrounds.

You'll also notice that the set of images the blends above have are from the same photo shoot. That generally helps with blending since the background will be similar, and the lighting will generally be the same, and the feel of the pictures will help create unity.

You really need to be selective with the images you select when blending.

As for techniques, I usually just slap all the images together as different layers, set all the images as overlay, mess around with the positioning, set the layers back to normal, and erase the areas I don't want. After that, you can apply whatever effects you'd like to the image.