blending images for a layout

[Juggalo Bags]

Ive been tryin to figure out a layout for my own site and whats in my head cant be translated through ps. I am trying to make a 800x600 layout with a gray background and i have three images that im trying to blend together. I cant figure out how to do it. If anyone can help me out or maybe see if they can do it for me and tell me some other stuff i can do to it to make it look sweet i would really apprecaite it.

thanks
bags

ps. cant post the other pic but there is a third one

[theKeeper]

Hey bags...

Great photos.

I can't give any specific 'artistic' advise as to how you should blend your photos; i don't give that kind of advice at all. But i CAN tell you that to blend photos together all you need do is add a Layer Mask to the photo layers, then paint with black, on the mask not the layer, over any areas you wish to 'erase'.

Give it a try and you'll see what i mean.
I also have a good tute on being creative with Layer Masks. Perhaps it can give you some cool ideas of ways to blend your specific photos.

Fun With Layer Masks (a pdf file)

[Juggalo Bags]

thanks ill see if i can do it

[lasa]

Blending photos means masking most of the time but for very simple blending on nice contrast pictures like these using the blending mode in layers sometime does the trick for you.

I have Tommy with white pilars on top of Tommy looking up.
and have the top layer set to SCREEN. only the light colors show thru.
Then I made the bottom layer smaller.

Again not the greatest design but very easy.

Lasa

[ronmatt]

I don't know what the white object is that looks like pillars shop with a fisheye lens, And because they stop so abruptly at the sides it makes for a poor photo to work with... so I eliminated them. You won't be able to achieve a 'grey' background without some heavy duty outlining work. So working with what I had to work with, here's an idea Opps, too big

http://img181.echo.cx/img181/8925/merged9kp.th.jpgpg

[ronmatt]

I don't know what the white object is that looks like pillars shop with a fisheye lens, And because they stop so abruptly at the sides it makes for a poor photo to work with... so I eliminated them. You won't be able to achieve a 'grey' background without some heavy duty outlining work. So working with what I had to work with, here's an idea Opps, too big

http://img181.echo.cx/img181/8925/merged9kp.th.jpg

[ronmatt]

http://img181.echo.cx/my.php?image=merged6qm.jpg

sorry