Blending the render into the background just right

[Link702]

If any of you have seen my work that I posted, here's a link:http://forums.biorust.com/showrooms-...ter-haven.html (Filter haven)

Anyways the point is, the people say I need to get the render to blend into the background right. Any pointers and hints as I have looked on tutorial websites for help and have found no avail.

[Telos]

I mostly use brushes for that. I take the render and then I brush behind and top of it so that it is caught in the middle. I also use multiple layers of the render and then blur + different blending modes depending on what I'm trying to do. It helps a lot if your background is more than just clean colors. If you can't think of anything to put as background you can try multiplying your render and then make it like 400% bigger and blur it so that it is there but the primary render is still the focal point. Mostly brushes are your best friends here. You can do wonders with them.

[stiney51]

I generally use a layer mask and the gradient tool to blend things together. You can play with different settings of the gradient to get different results. You might have to flatten the render to do this, but I'm not positive.

If you had an example of something you wanted to blend it would be helpful to fully understand what you are trying to do.

[Link702]

Originally Posted by stiney51

I generally use a layer mask and the gradient tool to blend things together. You can play with different settings of the gradient to get different results. You might have to flatten the render to do this, but I'm not positive.

If you had an example of something you wanted to blend it would be helpful to fully understand what you are trying to do.

Ok, here's what I want to "blend" into the background. 1st link is the render, 2 link is the background.
http://img305.imageshack.us/img305/6...er101sm9cj.jpg
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/3...etsmall4gd.jpg

[stiney51]

Ok, I only worked on this for 5 minutes, so understand this is a quick example, but I'd start by cutting the render out of its background (if it's not already a layered file) using the pen tool (or lasso if you're more comfortable with it). Keep both layers though and add them to the background image. Adjust them to the size you need (making sure they stay the same size). Then add a layer mask to the bottom layer of the render. Depending on the effect you want you can use the gradient tool on the layer mask (using black as the foreground and white as the background) to add the blend you want. try experimenting with different types of gradients and different transparency settings for the layer to get different effects. Again, this was done with this technique in just minutes and is probably only 1 of several methods to obtain this effect:



Hope that helps a little. I can try to put together some screen shots if you need help trying this.

[Link702]

Well that wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but thanks anyways. Here is the sort of effect I am trying to do, this was a sig that somebody made for a friend of mine. I kind of want to blend the render into the background so it matches the color but you can still see the render.

[Telos]

Layer modes. Try them all but overlay and screen are pretty good ones. Color dodge/burn should also be fine in this case. Layer modes with the combination of multiple layers of one render can turn out to be fine.

[Link702]

Ok thanks I'll try that and if it works right for me I'll post it here.