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As promised I'm here with the tut that can help you to make siggies like the following one

Requirements: Basic knowledge of PS and it's tools, especially the gradient tool and Layer Mask

So let's start:

1) Open a new document in PS

2) Drag the pictures that you want to use in the new document

3) Select a proper background. You can changed it later if you want, but normally I select the right background before start working, because I think in this way, I can managed the blending work properly and see if I like the effect that I'm getting during the process. I mean if the backgound suits the pics.

4) Adjust the pictures accordingly to your likes, you can change the positions later too, so it's not something on which you can't put your hands later.

A) This is what I have, the start point

5) Select a Pic, click on the layer mask button, which is near the blending options key, on it's right side.

6) A white box will appear on the right side of your picture, that box is called "Layer Mask"

7) Now with the layer box selected, you can know if your layer mask is select by the existence of a box/broader around it, select the Gradient Tool.

8) The gradient should be black/white, in normal mode and opacity 100%

B) Just like in the picture

9) Now you can start the blending/merging process and to do so you have to drew a line on your picture and the tool will do the rest.

10) The line should go from the edge toward the inside of the picture. Press the mouse once you are near the edge and then with the mouse pressed move toward the inside of the picture. On your picture you should see a gray line being traced

Suggestion: I advise you to start from the top pictures and then pass to those which are in the background, in this way you can see if you like the effect and till which point you need to work on them. If the effect is not coming like what you think, try to reduce the size of the lines that you drew.

C) Look in the picture, the line is not visible, but it's there.

D) See how the gradient tool works

11) Once you have done one side, you have to delete the layer mask and put on another one if you want to merge the other side of the picture. Because if you try to do the other side with the same layer the previous one will get restored. I mean the picture will turn normal.

I don't know if what I'm saying is true or not, but with my PS it works like this only.

12) Select the layer mask and click on delete, a window will appear, it will show

Apply: click if you want to apply the mask/correction that you have done

Delete: click if you want to restore the picture

Cancel: click if you clicked by mistake on the delete button

E) check the picture below

13) If there are parts that you can't delete with the gradient tool, then you can do it by your own. And to do so follow the following steps

13.1) Put a layer mask on your pic, just like you put it to use the gradient tool

3) Select the brush tool

13.2) Select a soft brush of the size you wish, but I suggest you to stay between 12-20

5) Set the opacity between 15-25%

13.3) The color of the brush should be black, normally when you select the brush tool after selected the layer mask, it automatically set the black as the color for the brush

13.4) Now start passing the parts that you want to delete/fade. The more you will pass the brush on a part, the more it will get faded.

POINT: to get a good effect you have to press the mouse button and don't release if till you don't have faded the entire part that you want to merge/delete. Because if you start releasing and pressing the mouse the fade/delete effect will not look homogenous. Remember each time you will release and press the mouse button the part already deleted will got deleted more once you pass on them again.

F) Check the picture

14) When you are done put some good effects and the work is done. Once you got how the thing work everything will get more simple and easy.

Hope it helped. For any other questions feel free to scrap or PM me.

P.S. you can apply this method on Gifs too, but before apply it, you have to group the layers of the Gifs and then on the group folder put a layer mask.

-Preet-