just a little critique on ym mediocre photoshop skills please

[Danny]

So my horror games site/blog/thing is in need of an update, so right now im coming up with a good banner for the top, right now im just testing some stuff, so right now heres my first thang' im testing for how cool it looks.

picture 1:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/khazrak/sh_1.jpg

picture 2:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/khazrak/crimsonbutterfly.jpg

becomes

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/khazrak/bannertest1.jpg


heres what i did.

save two pictures.

open one in, in my case, adobe photoshop cs3.

then copy the second image in a layer above the first one in the same file.

on the box that lists all the layers theres a sqaure with a circle inside it, the layer mask button, click that.

select the paintbrush and make it black. now when you "paint the upper layer" your actually erasing it, and painting the bottom layer on there, sort of.

then you can lower the gradient on the brush to alter the transparency instead of purely deleteing, this makes for easy blending.


all in all its just 5 minutes work , might be more fiddly with a mouse, im using a cheap, but good, £20 wacom bamboo graphics tablet.

so what do you think?, does it blend well?

[MinionZombie]

I think have about three butterflies in the image, AND change their colour, something like a dark, cold blue or something.

[mista_mo]

bright pink butterflies and silent hill don't mix well.

Give the butterflies huge penis' that have 17 tongues on them, chain the butterflies wings to it's ass (which is gaping wide goatse esque) and cover it's eyes in a thick coating of blood.

[Neil]

Give the butterflies huge penis' that have 17 tongues on them, chain the butterflies wings to it's ass (which is gaping wide goatse esque) and cover it's eyes in a thick coating of blood.

* gives mista_mo a concerned look *

[MinionZombie]

* gives mista_mo a concerned look *
*also gives mo a concerned look*

Although yeah, like blood-dripping butterflies, or butterflies on fire/peeling in that Silent Hill movie style when everything goes to sh*t...something like that would be schweet.