How to Blend Using Paint Shop Pro X

Here's a tutorial for those of you who want to learn have to make a banner using a basic blend in Paint Shot ProX/X2.

 

 

 

 

Step 1

First open a new document. File > New, and for the width put 550px, and for length put 350px. You can have Vector Background checked, or Raster, it doesn't matter.

Step 2

Take these two pictures of Mr. Gaskarth. Small Alex(left) and Big Alex (right), name them as Small Alex and Big Alex, respectively.

Step 3

Now drag them onto the new document, and fit them together however you want. If Big Alex isn't at the top of the layers, drag it to the top, and now he should be layered above Small Alex, and now part of him is missing. If you want big Alex turned the opposite direction like mine, just go to Image > Mirror or CTRL+M.

Step 4

Now for the blending, you're going to take the selection tool that looks like:

 

And the settings on top will change, make sure the Selection Type is on Rectangle, Mode as Replace and Feather should be at 30 or 35. Okay, now select a piece of Big Alex's dark background and press delete on your keyboard, keep doing that until your satisfied with the outcome.

Now, your finished!  Just go to Layers > Merge > Merge All (Flatten) and now you can play around with the blend to however you like, colorize it a bit, add text, any textures...

Images are from Flickr.

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