Photoshop Tutorials: Blend Photos Like A Hollywood Movie Poster
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Written By Steve Patterson
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to take a couple of photos and blend them together Hollywood movie poster-style. Blending photos together is very easy to do in Photoshop thanks to layer masks, yet finding two photos with similar colors isn't always so easy, and you end up with an effect that doesn't really seem to look right because the colors don't match.
With this technique, you don't need to worry about the colors in the images at all because we'll be removing them completely and adding our own colors to blend the two photos seamlessly.
Here's the first photo I'll be using:
Here's the image I want to blend it with:
And here's what the final effect will look like:
Let's get started.
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Step 1: Drag One Image Into The Document Window Of The Other Image
The first thing we need in order to blend our two images together is for them to both be in the same document. To do that, with both of my images open on the screen in their own separate document windows, I'm going to grab my Move tool from the Tools palette, or I could press the letter V on my keyboard to quickly select it:
Then with my Move tool selected, I'm going to click anywhere inside the image of the couple walking on the beach to make that document window active, and I'm simply going to drag the image into the other document window:
When I release my mouse button, both images appear inside the same document, one on top of the other:
I can also see both images now on their own separate layers in the Layers palette:
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