Blending help

[Tawnos76]

I am new to editing with Paint (did a lot of simple straight out drawing with it but not layering) and have only used the simple drawing parts of it so far but I need help in adding 2 pictures together so they look natural.

How do I blend them so they look seamless.

These are the 3 I am currently working on.

thank you

http://www.mediafire.com/?xxp7mta3tmafivt

http://www.mediafire.com/?d5vd788wdfdhy5f

http://www.mediafire.com/?i50d2tc027wm2kz

They are all different Discworld images I am trying to blend to look natural. Let me know what I should try.

Edited October 21, 2010 by Tawnos76

[Sarkut]

I tried some blurred Alpha Mask, Smudge, and some 1 pixel white lines

to extend the flared highlight from the scythe blade.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/61/disctrial1edit01xcc.png

[Tawnos76]

Thanks that looks great. I will give what you did a try and see if I can get the same results.

[Tawnos76]

Gave alpha masking a try but I think I still am missing something as I did not see much of a difference.

How do you cut the edges off around the picture like you did in the example you posted up.

Here is what I got when I tried to merge and blend.

and

[Sarkut]

Make a mask in black on a new (transparent) layer.

Copy the mask into the Windows clipboard, then switch to the image layer

and apply the Alpha Mask effect with no checkmark in the top box.

Here's a recent thread with some links relating to Alpha mask use.

This is partly the original/partly a reproduction of the masks that I used originally.

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/6252/disconemaskpng.png

[Tawnos76]

Make a mask in black on a new (transparent) layer.

Copy the mask into the Windows clipboard, then switch to the image layer

and apply the Alpha Mask effect with no checkmark in the top box.

Here's a recent thread with some links relating to Alpha mask use.

This is partly the original/partly a reproduction of the masks that I used originally.

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/6252/disconemaskpng.png

Thanks for the help. I did some cutting as well and here is what I ended up with. Much better than my earlier trials.

[Sarkut]

Looks good.