Abstract Blending
First thing you must know about abstract blending is, it isn't mean to look, that realistic, it's more of a visual type of art. The images in the blend are at different scales and have a variety of blending methods crammed in, which makes it hard to get into the hang of it. It has a certain style, which I'm still struggling with, but I'll give you the basics.
Here's what you should want to end up with at the end (or even better!)
I used the photoshoot from February 8th at BwGreyscale, if you want your blend to look similar.
1. First off, put your first two images at different scales, overlapping each other. Then erase it into the other with a soft brush so it looked relatively realistic. Then add your third image, and I made mine full size and then, as I didn't want it to be realistic, I used a hard brush, and did it quite carelessly.
2. If you have any space free in your blend, use the pen tool and cut out another photo, don't be too neat, but don't be obviously messy. You may need to resize it, then duplicate it and lower the saturation or modify the colour. I flattened the image and then used the clone tool and copied a bit from a part of the blend (alt and click), made a new layer and did it at full opacity, pin light, and then lowered the opacity slightly.
3. With the next image, I made it quite big to add a scale factor, and blended it in, partially with a soft brush, and some with a hard brush. I also colourized parts too. Repeat all these steps if you wish to add some more images to the blend.
4. I then flattened the images again, added a shaded brown linear gradient and set it to soft light and deleted parts I didn't want the gradient to affect. I then chose some text and shape brushes, and used black and white (100% opacity) and just brushed the image up.
That's it! Your blend is now abstract!
