Simple Blending
This tutorial is just meant to teach you how to simply blend images/stock photos onto backgrounds.
This tutorial uses Adobe Photoshop. It's simple blending so it should work with all versions.Step 1.
Select a background and stock photo.
This is just a sig background that i got from our signatures
section.

The stock image is just a car. I'm getting yelled at for being biased and only making girl images... but I don't know squat about cars, so don't blame me if this is a good/bad car. It was just a random googled image.
If you want to use the same image as me, just click on the image, it'll give you the image to it's full size.
Step 2.
OK, take the image of your car and go to Layer>Duplicate Layer and set the document as the signature background.
You should now have this oversized car in your background. Press the maximize
box in the corner so that the image takes up the whole screen.
Now, what you do is hit Ctrl+T (or Edit>Transform>Free Transform), and hold
shift, grab onto one of the corner boxes and resize the car to the size
you want, and move it into position.
Click on the image for the enlargement.
Step 3.
Okay, now to blending. Hit enter, to confirm the transformation. Click
on the lasso tool
,
and set feather to around 15px.
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Trace around the general shape of the car. Hit Ctrl+Shift+I or Select>Inverse.

Now hit delete. You can press delete as many times, until you get the fading of your choice. I hit delete 3 times. Now hit Ctrl+D or Select>Deselect.
Step 4.
Okay, what Im gonna do now is change the colour of the car to match with the image. You do this by going Ctrl+U or Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation. Tick the colorize box to change the colour. This is the settings I used, and the result.


Step 5.
Okay! Now we're done, and you can just add a heading or something. This is what i finished with. It took about 3 minutes all up.
