Help Needed with Image Blends

[bigbr0ther]

Hi all you lovely people! :wavey:

Please help me. :(

I just got Adobe Fireworks. Okay, well, here's what I did. I faded the sides of each image and now I want to blend them together. But no matter what I do they always have a definitive end. I want them to be blended together so that there is no clear end. I'm overlapping them and they're slightly transparent on the sides but it's still clear where each image ends.


I'm very frustrated. :(

Thanks in advance for any help...

[bigbr0ther]

Would someone please help me? I really want to be able to blend images...

[bigbr0ther]

Come on, won't anyone please help me?

[Rory]

Be patient, most people aren't up at 3AM.

Anyway, I have no help but could you look for an eraser tool? That's very useful in Adobe Photoshop, no idea how Fireworks works.

[Billy]

Okay Ill help you.
once you have all your images, overlap one slightly. Then click on the overlapped one and go to COMMAND -> CREATIVE -> FADE IMAGE and click the first one. you should see a black line appear. Drag the black line over to the middle, and it should be blended. If you need me to put pics up I will.

[bigbr0ther]

Thank you Billy! The black line tip helped a lot. The images are a lot more blended now, but you can still see the lines defining where one ends and the next begins. Is there any further step I can take to make it so that it is completely impossible to tell the end of one and start of the other? Also, how do I make it so that only the very edge is transparent? As it is the entire image goes transparent to reveal the background behind it.

Thank you so much for your help.

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9094/blendnw0.png

[Rory]

Try that pink eraser tool under bitmap, and then click and hold down over the black edge?

[bigbr0ther]

Did I do it wrong Rory? I erased the overlapping part of one of the images but there's still one definitive line.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5239/blendul7.png

[Rory]

Post what the eraser tool looks like. There might be an option for hardness and you could have it on 100%, if so lower it to 0% and erase.

[Billy]

I know whatcha dooo.
You have to make them overlapping more, then drag the black line

[bigbr0ther]

Originally posted by Rory
Post what the eraser tool looks like. There might be an option for hardness and you could have it on 100%, if so lower it to 0% and erase.

When I put it at 0% it didn't actually do anything; I tried it at 50 and it party erased it but you can still see a definitive line. What technique do you use for your image blends? I think they're quite nice and I'd like to do the same thing.

[Rory]

Originally posted by bigbr0ther
Originally posted by Rory
Post what the eraser tool looks like. There might be an option for hardness and you could have it on 100%, if so lower it to 0% and erase.

When I put it at 0% it didn't actually do anything; I tried it at 50 and it party erased it but you can still see a definitive line. What technique do you use for your image blends? I think they're quite nice and I'd like to do the same thing.
I don't use Fireworks, I use Photoshop. :sad:

I think you're better off using Billy's method, seeing as I don't know how the eraser tool works in Fireworks.

[bigbr0ther]

Originally posted by Billy21
I know whatcha dooo.
You have to make them overlapping more, then drag the black line

Argh, I must have done it wrong. Now the lines are just further apart and it looks like 3 images... would you mind explaining in a bit more detail? I must still be confused.

http://i37.tinypic.com/wikhhw.png

[bigbr0ther]

I spent $500 on this program just so I could blend images. :bawling:

[Firewire]

You should of bought Photoshop.

[MarkWaldorf]

Originally posted by Firewire
You should of bought Photoshop.

[bigbr0ther]

Originally posted by Firewire
You should of bought Photoshop.

Fireworks was advertised as a "power blender for images" with "26 different ways to blend." Not only can I not figure out how to do their special blends, I can't even figure out how to do any!

[KKBL]

if this is your first time blending then the images your using are way to complicated.just make 2 layers paint one of them red and the other yellow and then try blending.

[bigbr0ther]

:sad:

[bigbr0ther]

Come on, someone! I beg you, please! I spent $500 on this program! That's like 1,000 pounds! :bawling:

Please help me...

[xDramatick]

Originally posted by bigbr0ther
Come on, someone! I beg you, please! I spent $500 on this program! That's like 1,000 pounds! :bawling:

Please help me...

Shoulda got photoshop :\

Google is your friend.
There's bound to be something on there.

[Sam!]

Why did you spend a 1000 quid on fireworks :|. Try complety erasing up to the line then weaken the eraser so it blends.

[KKBL]

Originally posted by bigbr0ther
Come on, someone! I beg you, please! I spent $500 on this program! That's like 1,000 pounds! :bawling:

Please help me...

can you return it?

[Hugo]

Originally posted by bigbr0ther
Come on, someone! I beg you, please! I spent $500 on this program! That's like 1,000 pounds! :bawling:

Please help me...

Actually thats like £300 or something but anyway....
Try and set the eraser tool opacity/transparency to about 15% or something and then erase the top image that is over the other one and eraser the line and go from there.

[bigbr0ther]

Originally posted by Darenn
Originally posted by bigbr0ther
Come on, someone! I beg you, please! I spent $500 on this program! That's like 1,000 pounds! :bawling:

Please help me...

Shoulda got photoshop :\

Google is your friend.
There's bound to be something on there.

Believe me, I've tried every keyword and looked through hundreds of pages. No help.

[KKBL]

have you watched any of THESE (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=adobe+fireworks+tutorials&search_type=&aq=6&oq=adobe+fireworks)?

[Hugo]

Originally posted by bigbr0ther
Originally posted by Darenn
Originally posted by bigbr0ther
Come on, someone! I beg you, please! I spent $500 on this program! That's like 1,000 pounds! :bawling:

Please help me...

Shoulda got photoshop :\

Google is your friend.
There's bound to be something on there.

Believe me, I've tried every keyword and looked through hundreds of pages. No help.

Took me about 3 seconds to find this :rolleyes:

http://www.designertoday.com/Tutorials/Misc/4968/Blending.two.images.Adobe.Fireworks.Tutorial.aspx

[bigbr0ther]

Originally posted by KKBL
have you watched any of THESE (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=adobe+fireworks+tutorials&search_type=&aq=6&oq=adobe+fireworks)?

I hadn't thought of using YouTube. Thanks, I'll try that. :)

Originally posted by tooperfect
Took me about 3 seconds to find this :rolleyes:

http://www.designertoday.com/Tutorials/Misc/4968/Blending.two.images.Adobe.Fireworks.Tutorial.aspx

Thanks TP, but I saw that page and it's not what I'm trying to do. That shows you how to overlay images, but I want them to be next to each other with no visible edge, like you do in your support banners in your graphics shop.



If I can't figure out how to do it I'll try to get my money back.

[Xander]

You should of done research before buying any product, would of saved money.

[bigbr0ther]

Originally posted by Xander
You should of done research before buying any product, would of saved money.

I know, but they really shouldn't advertise it as a "power blender for images" when it can't blend images at all!