Hey there. Welcome to this video. I'm going to show you how to do this. We were just kind of paint in an image so we can do it kind of a cool. Before and after. It's pretty simple with a layer mask and a brush. Let's jump in now to find out how. All right. So let's open our two images that we're going to be blending. Let's go to file. Open and in your exercise files go to 05 selections and masking. We're gonna open up these two layer mask one and two. It's a before and after renovation. Okay, So first of all, let's be on, Oh, to the finished version, let's grab the move tool, click hold, drag, drag, drag, drag, drag up to this tab. Wait, wait, wait, drag it down and line it up. Okay, let's be all serious about this. And name the layers. I've double clicked the word layer one and let's call this one new double click the background and call it old. Let's have the new layer selected now for this blend. We're using a layer mask. But what we've done in the past is we've used something like ...

the selection tool. Okay. The rectangle marquee tool to make a selection or the quick mask selection or the quick selection tool. We made a selection first and then clicked on this button here. Okay. And that's not always necessary. Especially in this case it's gonna file. Deselect so you don't have to have anything selected. I'm back on my move tool. Okay. And all I'm gonna do is make sure the new layer is selected and just click on this without a selection and nothing happens except we've got this new layer mask here. And because it's all white it does nothing. We need some black bits in it to start masking. Let's have a look at one of the previous examples we've got. This is the project from the last video. Okay? You can see the black bits hide the background. The white bits show it through. Let's not worry too much about that. But let's get back into here. So we need to do two things. We need to make sure we're on the mask, you can be on the actual image or the mask. I want to work on the mask. I'm going to grab my brush tool. It's this guy here. Okay, click on that. He is that many down Came with the selected pick a brush size. We're gonna use something quite big in this case. Okay, so I've got mine up to about 400 ish. And in this drop down here I've got the hardness down to zero. Now the two main important things for this is we've got our mask selected and down here we've got black is our foreground color you see at the moment mine is white. So to switch these two around, you can click on this double arrow. If you also kind of like shades of gray and it's not completely black, click on this little option that just kind of like resets it to full white. Full black and then click the little arrow just means my foreground color is black. Okay, because we've got white. If we paint it with black, we know things that are black on the mask get hidden. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to start down the bottom here and click hold and start painting come on. Okay, so it's just kind of before and after remote. You saw the intro? How much do I want to go? I always kind of like, I'm like yeah that looks kind of good and then I go too far and then it's looking a bit weird. Okay, the big thing to note is can you see down here the black that I've painted on this mask is hiding this current layer, the white bits are still showing through. So if I want to show things through again, I just switch white is my foreground and watch, watch this and watch where I'm painting. Can you see if I paint on that? It starts bringing things back through. It's just a really easy way to kind of decide on what you want through and what you don't. I kinda like that. I might switch to black again and just paint out that bit there. That's a really easy way to blend two images together, make sure they're on top of each other. The top one at a layer mask with no selection and then just paint on it with black. If you need to bring stuff back pain on with white, I hope it's not too nerdy for you this earlier in the course. Okay. But it's a really handy thing just to blend images. And one thing that might catch you out though is you can see this kind of like white box around the mask. Now it's on the image now, it's on the mask now it's on the image. So when I'm working on my layer mask, it's going to work perfectly. But when you say save this document and reopen it up, it's probably going to be back over here on the layer. Now if I'm on my layer and I use my brush tool and I make sure it's on black. Okay, guess Well this is going to happen. Okay, you're like, I'm painting and painting out. I'm just going to switch it back, paint it with white. You're just you can see my little lay there. You've actually just painted black and white on top of it. And you really need to hope you've got an edit step backwards. It it's the backwards it is still backwards. Maybe one too many step forwards. All right. That is how to blend images, one across the other. Let's get into the next video

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36. How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

Lessons

Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial

How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC

Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop

Layers - Quiz

How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC

How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance

How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue

How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC

How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop

Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz

Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC

Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

Shapes - Quiz

How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop

Text - Quiz

How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop

How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC

How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC

Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio

Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard

How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC

How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC

How to Crop Images Inside of Text

How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Quick Select Tool

How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop

How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC

How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image

How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Selecting Hair

How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC

Class Project - Text & Image Interaction

Selection & Masking - Quiz

How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop

How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project – Oil Painting

How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop

Class exercise - Halftone

How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC

The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop

Filters - Quiz

What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop

How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop

Class Project - Peeling Sky

How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify

How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC

Class Project - Drippy Paint Text

How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop

Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching

How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop

How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC

Class Project - Retouching

Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC

How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

Retouching

How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop

Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop

How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop

Class Project - Boat in a Bottle

How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Duotones

How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Class Project - Anaglyph Effect