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Title: Any tips on how to make my foreground blend with the background?
Post by: menace on September 17, 2015, 10:42:19 am

Here's my CP mockup.  I want to make the foreground pics "grittier" to blend with the background--any tips on which tools/settings to use?  Thanks!

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=136713.0;attach=335709;image)

Title: Re: Any tips on how to make my foreground blend with the background?
Post by: Malenko on September 17, 2015, 11:04:52 am

http://www.wikihow.com/Fade-in-Photoshop (http://www.wikihow.com/Fade-in-Photoshop)

I use the reveal layer mask with a gradient all the time.

Title: Re: Any tips on how to make my foreground blend with the background?
Post by: lamprey on September 17, 2015, 12:56:22 pm

My guess is that you want to actually apply a "grunge" affect to the layer, but you could try adjust the opacity to blend it into the background a bit to see if that does what you want.

Here is a page with several links to Gunge Tutorials:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/40-beautiful-grunge-photoshop-tutorials/ (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/40-beautiful-grunge-photoshop-tutorials/)

Title: Re: Any tips on how to make my foreground blend with the background?
Post by: menace on September 18, 2015, 07:04:53 am

Thanks for the tips!--I ended up adding a scratched steel layer and blending it--not as good as what the pros would do but it took the shine out of the pics and helped blend them to the back ground.