Best Way To Blend

I have heard some many ways on blending, I don't know which is the best way I should do it.

How do you blend?

 

Wow, hmm, I guess I don't really use renders any more, I use the whole stock, well I guess I blend with smudging, erasing and c4d.

 

I prefer erasing around the edges with a low-opacity eraser (fuzzy on the edges).

 

also if you want to have the fuzzy edges on your render you can go to filter > Blur > glassion blur around 3 and then paste the render again ontop of that and it belnds it in a bit

 

Hand erased.

 

i use the lasso with the mask thingy....welll im not such a photoshoper i just do it for fun

 

^^^ Same here.

 

well i duplicate the top render layer twice. on the top layer i gausian blur it at 3.0 then set it to overlay. i then do the same to the layer under it but i set the blur to 5 then overlay.

 

ummm.. erase with soft brush

 

Depends on the sig; i like using a technique I found in one of the tuts here. (pixel stretch grunge I think?)

Duplicate the render. Add guassian blur to the bottom render, and dup that blurred layer twice. When you're done with the sig (before you add text), merge the visible layers. Then, copy it, and undo until you have all your layers back. Paste the flattened version of the sig onto a new layer, and set a guassian blur to that. Make that layer soft light or overlay, and then go through and partially desaturate the colored layers underneath it.

 

pedepns on what outcome you want and how good quality the render is.

I like to make BG's from the render, put the render under the BG then erase some of the BG,

Try using some stocks aswell, it's a handy skill to have.

 

what do u mean by that?

 

<span style='font-family:Comic Sans MS'>there is no "best" way to do it. it just depends on the piece u r making</span>

 

Agreed with havoc.

 

you need to read some tutorial and find out which one you find the most ezest.