This technique is especially useful for creating classy looking images for your tour pages or other larger-kilobyte pictures.

1. Open your two images in Photoshop

2. Make a selection 3/4 of the image in the first image.

3. SELECT >> FEATHER, and use a value of about 10 (you may need to change this)

4. Make a selection 3/4 of the second image in the opposite direction.

5. SELECT >> FEATHER, and use a value of about 10.

6. Create a new canvas big enough to accomodate both images and copy and past the two selections we made above. You will also need to drag them to the correct position, to get something like the image below. If your images do not look good together you may need to increase/decrease your selection or increase/decrease the feather.

1. Select your original first image, and hit the QUICK MASK button in the toolbar.

2. Using the GRADIENT tool drag across your image horizontally (or which-ever way you want to blend your images)

3. Notice how this creates a REDISH looking gradient over your image. The darkest red means it will be completely opaque or clear, and slowly as the gradient pales and stops it means that part of your image will gradually appear. So in our image below, the image in the far right will be clear and the image in the far left will be visible, with varying levels of visibility in between.

4. This method can be used to blend images in any variety, to produce similar results to our first method.

By Andrew
BlueDesignStudios