There are many times that I want to do graphics quickly by myself. I use Photoshop as my tool. It is a little expensive but it really works as it has promised. There are many unbelievable things that the product can do. One thing is that it can blend two pictures together. This is good when you want to do the headers of your website or you want to make your photo interesting. Here are the steps that you will need to do.

1. Open the picture you want. Normally the picture should be in JPEG form. I am sure that other forms of file should work the same way. But I have not tried at the time of writing this article.

2. Open the second picture which you want to blend with the first picture. Drag the first picture on top of the second picture. By the way, if you have not used Photoshop before, you may want to study some basic skills for Photoshop first. It is not difficult to learn. But it takes some time until you can skillfully use the program.

3. Look at the tool bar on your left side. On the top left of the toolbar, you will see the marquee tool. Right click on the tool and select rectangular marquee tool.

4. Drag the tool onto the two pictures that you want to blend. Make sure that you cover the whole area.

5. Now, you look at the right corner. You will see a tool box which shows layer, channel and paths. Select the layer window. Select the layer of the upper picture which you have just placed on the first picture.

6. On the bottom of the tool box, you will see the grey rectangular with the white dot at the center. This is an "add layer mask" tool. Just click on the tool. You will add a layer mask.

7. Go back onto your left side. You will see a button with the bucket picture. This is a paint tool. Right click and change it to a gradient tool.

8. When you are in the gradient tool mode. Select the gradient style at the top to from black to white. You will see many choices when you click on the box. Just select the one with the picture of "from black color to white color".

9. Go to the picture. Drag a line from the picture below to the upper picture. You will see that the two pictures blend neatly together.

10. Save the picture in JPEG or your preferred file type.