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HELP! I am trying to finish off my grandson's christening album and I want to blend in several photos to the backgorund. These are of people and while I want to include them on one page they are not connected to each other. I have seen a few montages doing this and think this would work well for my page. However I have just spent hours trying to get it looking right. I have seen a tut or 2 on it but of course can't find them now that I need them. I am using PSCS3. Any help would be appreciated.

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oh my lordy, I just found how to do this yesterday, in PCS3 and it's BRILLIANT!!

 

here goes:

overlap your photos, each on their own layers, ever so slightly

highlight all layers

go to edit: autoblend layers

TA DA, this should automatically blend your layers one into the other while still keeping the layers separate.

 

if you want to have one photo to place, just merge the photo layers together and there you go!!

 

I used it last night on a LO and it worked like a charm.

 

hope this helps

enjoy PCS3, I'm learning and loving it heaps

 

hope the weather in Brisie is better than down here in Melb. It's gonna be 15 and hail tomorrow and looking pretty black out there now. But we do need the rain...

 

have a super night

Jo

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Thanks very much for that Jo. I will try this out tonight.

 

We are having hail storms here in Brissie every day but in Oxley we've been lucky - just had rain, and not much of it. Lots and lots of houses and buildings damaged with hail on the northern outskirts of Brisbane and on Darling Downs. Glad I'm on the south.

 

I just love PSCS3, although I still have lots to learn about it.

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Thanks very much for that Jo. I will try this out tonight.

 

We are having hail storms here in Brissie every day but in Oxley we've been lucky - just had rain, and not much of it. Lots and lots of houses and buildings damaged with hail on the northern outskirts of Brisbane and on Darling Downs. Glad I'm on the south.

 

I just love PSCS3, although I still have lots to learn about it.

 

 

I've been looking on the board recently for the tut about the very same subject, have loads a photo's of the Kids with very poor backgrounds so I thought I'd make a Montage, but I have PSE 5 anyone out there that's in the know. Ta

 

Chris x

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Thanks very much for that Jo. I will try this out tonight.

 

We are having hail storms here in Brissie every day but in Oxley we've been lucky - just had rain, and not much of it. Lots and lots of houses and buildings damaged with hail on the northern outskirts of Brisbane and on Darling Downs. Glad I'm on the south.

 

I just love PSCS3, although I still have lots to learn about it.

 

 

my pleasure, I've just had another play, it's so much fun but then i realised that i hadn't told you that you will need to rasterise your photos/files first before 'blending' them. sorry if this mucked you up, give this a try, should work great.

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oh my lordy, I just found how to do this yesterday, in PCS3 and it's BRILLIANT!!

 

here goes:

overlap your photos, each on their own layers, ever so slightly

highlight all layers

go to edit: autoblend layers

TA DA, this should automatically blend your layers one into the other while still keeping the layers separate.

 

if you want to have one photo to place, just merge the photo layers together and there you go!!

 

I used it last night on a LO and it worked like a charm.

 

hope this helps

enjoy PCS3, I'm learning and loving it heaps

 

hope the weather in Brisie is better than down here in Melb. It's gonna be 15 and hail tomorrow and looking pretty black out there now. But we do need the rain...

 

have a super night

Jo

 

 

"Autoblend?" OMG! Sure wish I could upgrade!

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hmm.. can I ask..will this method work in cs2 as well? cuz I sure would like to give this a whirl when I get home from this boring job ;)

 

 

oh Tina, you make me laugh 'boring job'.. but sadly I don't think CS2 has it, I think it's a new thing that CS3 has brought out. maybe put CS3 on your christmas wish list...sorry

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Thanks very much for that Jo. I will try this out tonight.

 

We are having hail storms here in Brissie every day but in Oxley we've been lucky - just had rain, and not much of it. Lots and lots of houses and buildings damaged with hail on the northern outskirts of Brisbane and on Darling Downs. Glad I'm on the south.

 

I just love PSCS3, although I still have lots to learn about it.

 

 

I've been looking on the board recently for the tut about the very same subject, have loads a photo's of the Kids with very poor backgrounds so I thought I'd make a Montage, but I have PSE 5 anyone out there that's in the know. Ta

 

 

 

Chris x

 

 

HI Chris, I use PSE5 and here's what you do open your background paper and get it ready to go , then open your photo in its own layer and use the marquee tool and mark the part of the photo that you want to blend. Anything inside the marquee will NOT be blended. Then move your photo to your back ground paper and with the marquee tool highlighted go up to the top of the workspace and increse the FEATHER amt. On the one I did I used 100pxs. which will blend it into the background completely. Its very cool, I would play around with the amount of the feathereing until you get what your want. Hope this helps you out

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Let me jump in here. I just tried the process you described MJ on PSE3. Nothing happened. In fact, when I selected before moving my photo over, I even lost my selection. when I did it after moving the photo over intact, nothing happened. I must be missing a big step. OR maybe this doesn't work on PSE?

 

Help please!

TIA

Debbie

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