Merge blend morph???

3rdPlanetPhotography

I'm lost on searching..... Here's what I'm trying to accomplish.

I have 2 photos.... I want to fade one off as a background and blend the other photo on top of it.... can someone please point me in the right direction? I"m not sure what the correct name for this is and I'm only half-pint in PhotoShop.

thanks in advance
kc7dji

XO-Studios

kc7dji wrote:

I'm lost on searching..... Here's what I'm trying to accomplish.

I have 2 photos.... I want to fade one off as a background and blend the other photo on top of it.... can someone please point me in the right direction? I"m not sure what the correct name for this is and I'm only half-pint in PhotoShop.

thanks in advance
kc7dji

I'd be happy to point you in the right direction, that is as soon as I understand what you are trying to ask here. In other words, I will need a little more to work with here.

XO,

Andy

using the search here on dgrin, i found


this

and this

happy reading

3rdPlanetPhotography

ok I blew it... Here's what I'm asking
I have a photo of a standard white paper (wedding invitation with wording) I also have a photo of the couple getting married. I want to create a photo of the wedding invitation with the picture of the couple faded in the background of the invitation. Since it's 2 seperate photos I can't see how to bring them together in Photoshop. I can work on each photo individually. I though maybe I could have each photo as a layer and use the opacity to bring them together.

Hopefully this makes more sense.

Thanks
kc7dji

ginger_55

I understand what you mean. Often it is found under the word collage. Andy, it is not what you are talking about.

I would like to be able to do it, also. Scott Kelby touches on it, and I can do part of it, but I can't really control the outcome.

Help!

ginger and ........the rest of us.

3rdPlanetPhotography

I figured it out....
Not sure if this is the "correct" way... but It worked.

I took both photos into Photoshop. Cropped the parts I wanted to the same height and width. Then I took the photo of the couple and copied that entire image and pasted it on top of the invitation image. That automatically created a new layer on top of the invitation and I just reduced the opacity of the top layer so the background showed through....

Here it is...

bfjr

Looks real good to me

ginger_55

Thanks for explaining it to me. I do remember now that I was doing that for a day or two. I thought I would never forget it. And I did. I have been trying to do it for a month now with no short term memory of having done it before.

Scary,
ginger

3rdPlanetPhotography

memory

ginger_55 wrote:

Thanks for explaining it to me. I do remember now that I was doing that for a day or two. I thought I would never forget it. And I did. I have been trying to do it for a month now with no short term memory of having done it before.

Scary,
ginger

Glad I could help Ginger. I did the same thing. I had done it a "while" back and I couldn't remember how. Now that I have that down looks like I need to go back and re-align my eyeballs.... it looks pretty crooked . There's another thing to research and figure out.

Good Luck
kc7dji

XO-Studios

kc7dji wrote:

Not sure if this is the "correct" way... but It worked.

I took both photos into Photoshop. Cropped the parts I wanted to the same height and width. Then I took the photo of the couple and copied that entire image and pasted it on top of the invitation image. That automatically created a new layer on top of the invitation and I just reduced the opacity of the top layer so the background showed through....

Ok try this, for better results.

change layer order, picture on the bottom, text on top (so you can use layer effects on the text).

On the picture layer, use edit adjustment, brightness/contrast
reduce both brightness and contrast.
voila
additional bonus points for
3 layers
background in 'a color'
picture
text
same as above, but reduce opacity on picture layer to colorize.

FWIW, YMMV,


XO,