Blending w/ gradients

Tutorial

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Some people were asking me how I blend. I know there's already two tutorials on how to blend, but I do mine a different way.

I used these images, but you can use any that you want:
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First, paste them all so that they overlap each other.

Since 3 is on the top, I'll start with that one. On the "layers" window there's a button that looks like this: User posted image

Press it and make sure your colors are default, black and white
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Then, click the gradient tool
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The gradient should be set to this:

With the gradient tool, drag a line from image three to image two.

This should make image 3 disapear, but not for long.
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Flip the colors so that they are white and black instead of black and white.
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Then, select the gradient tool again. Drag the line from the left edge of image two to the right edge of image three going the same way you did before
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The image should reappear

Do the same for image two, but blend it with image ONE. When you're done, you should have something like this

To soften the blend, flatten the image.
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Then, select the whole image and copy it. Make a new layer
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and paste the image onto the new layer. The "layers" window should look like this
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Do a gaussian blur
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Set the blending option to overlay and set the opacity to 50%
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When you're done, you should get something like this

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finally one tutorial that works for blending lol. even though i cant see the pictures the text helped alot & they were GREAT instructions. anyways thanks

By georgejetKins on Aug 9, 2009 10:49 am