[J9Buckles]

Hey girls! I'm at work right now, using PSE5 to create our Playbill for the upcoming Christmas Production. We begin on Saturday night - I know, it's last minute.... but that's just how we do things here!

I'm trying to blend one photo into another and basically want them to meet in the middle...seamlessly of course. They identical images, flipped and set on top of on another, and they are both very dark. I just want them do gradually fade to nothing....am I making sense?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[J9Buckles]

Oh - and remember, I'm at work so try and keep the noise down!

[KBT]

Sorry- at work too, so don't have PSE right in front of me for names of things...

What I like to use is the cookie cutter tool. When you get to the options for it, the tool bar along the top gives you crop options if you will- if you change the 0 there to a number, the edges will blur/fade out. Have you tried that?

[J9Buckles]

KBT, on Dec 5 2007, 02:55 PM, said:

Sorry- at work too, so don't have PSE right in front of me for names of things...

What I like to use is the cookie cutter tool. When you get to the options for it, the tool bar along the top gives you crop options if you will- if you change the 0 there to a number, the edges will blur/fade out. Have you tried that?

I haven't tried that but I will! Thank you!

[J9Buckles]

OKay - tried that - unfortunately it fades out all the edges and I only need to fade one side of a rectangular image. Sort of a directional fade I guess.

[CRS]

Would something like this work for your project?

http://store.scrapgi...uct.php?id=5713

[PhotoshopScrapper]

OK...I don't have PSE so not sure if this is an option (I have PS). Can you add a gradient mask to the pictures? In PS, I would do this by adding a layer mask to the layer and then applying a fade gradient ... you can pick what direction you want it to go and how much of a fade to use. Then I go in and erase any hard lines that might still exist with a soft edged brush.

[J9Buckles]

Nope - thanks for your help though! I think I solved it by adding a layer mask and playing with the levels. Then I used one of the wet media brushes to erase parts of the top image and blend it with the bottom image. I seems to have printed okay.

This is the final product.

[sarabethp]

Select the photo and on a new layer place a gradient from black on the side you want to keep to transparent. (A preset gradient in PSE 5) Then place your gradient layer under your photo. Now click on the photo layer and hit ctrl+g. This clips it to the gradient so that the photo just fades in the same way as your gradient does. Hope this helps.

[J9Buckles]

Oops! That's much larger than I anticipated - how do you get them smaller?

[PhotoshopScrapper]

Nice job!

[J9Buckles]

I can't get it to work right..........I'll play with it at home tonight. Thanks for your help!

[Launa]

The gradient is what I used to blend the photos in this LO Slidin' Mia Place a layer mask on the top photo, then making sure the layer mask is active, use the black and white gradient tool to draw a line from one photo to the other, vertical, horizontal, diaginal, you name it. You will also notice some options on the menu bar that you can play with. This should work for you just play with it untill you get a look you like. HTH!!

[PBarnes]

Yeah, I was going to suggest what Launa did. What you've done looks pretty cool though.

[Shari PV Mom]

Don't make your image any smaller Janine ... we wouldn't be able to see it very well!

I think it turned out great by the way!

[CRS]

It looks fabulous! Great job on the program. I'm sure it will be a big hit!