Combining two images with the blend tool We
will start with making a new canvas.
This is the background on which we will work.
Go to file en click new.
Type in the width of 1920 en hit tab.
Type in for the height 1080 en click okay
or hit enter.
Go to file en click open as layers.
Now search for your first image and open it.
When this image is bigger than the canvas,
it will not be visible totally, but that is
okay.
Go to file again and open as layers and open
the second image.
Here too the size will determine how much
we will see off the image on the canvas.
The last opened image is the top layer.
For now we will make this invisible by clicking
the eye.
We will now select the second layer and we
are going to scale it.
Depending on the size of your image we will
make it bigger or smaller, in this case smaller.
Click in the toolbox on the scale tool.
Now click in the image.
If necessary we can move our dialog box aside
by left click and hold and then drag it.
Lock the little chain by clicking it.
In this way the height and the width stay
in proportion when we scale the image, except
when we drag it by the handles on the top,
the bottom, the left or the right.
If we drag them, the image will loose its
proper proportions.
When we scale, we must keep in mind to spare
enough image to make an overlap with the other
image.
Click scale.
With the move tool we can position the image.
Now we will select the top layer and click
the eye to make it visible again.
Select the scale tool and click in the image.
The chain is still locked, so we can scale
this image too.
When we are done with scaling, click scale
and position the image with the move tool.
If necessary, we can do some more scaling
or positioning, but remember to select every
time the proper image.
Right click on the top layer and select add
layer mask.
Leave the default settings as the are and
click add.
We still have the top layer selected and in
this image we will make the gradient.
Click the blend tool in the toolbox.
Here too we can leave the default settings
as they are.
Now we can draw a line in the top image and
make the gradient.
The place and length of the line determines
how the gradient will look.
A short line is a short gradient, a diagonal
line makes a diagonal gradient.
Every time we draw a new line, the previously
added gradient is undone.
This we can also do with Ctrl+Z.
When we hold the Ctrl key while we draw a
line, it will be an exact horizontal line
and the gradient will be exact vertical.
When we click on the canvas layer, the green
selection line will disappear and we can have
a good look on how our image has turned out.
When we want to make some more corrections,
we first have to select the top layer again.
Go to file and export as.
Give the image a new name and find the folder
in which you want to save it.
By default it has the png extension.
If we want we can change this by clicking
select file type and select jpeg.
Click export.
Click export again.
If you want to save the whole project, including
the layers, so that you can work on it the
next time you open it, you should save it
as xcf file.
Go to file and then save or safe as and in
that way you can save it as xcf.
I hope this was helpful.
Thanks for watching.
