Originally posted by: laughingpearls
what are the blending tools
if you use photoshop you get this panel on the right hand side of the screen, in the middle, and it is a little box called blending modes. You click on the arrow in the corner and it has options like normal, darken, screen, overlay and such and these help to change how the picture sits with all the other background images. Using that, colouring, layer masks and erasing tools will help you to make more natural compositions that look like they go together. Takes time to really master but you can make some really cool stuff.
I would recommend you google stuff. I'm not that good at all in photoshop yet.