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Combine photos to make digital art in Photoshop

Colin Smith

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In this Photoshop tutorial, learn how to quickly and easily make stunning art in Photoshop by combining photos.  Learn how to use Layer Blending modes, masks and more to make a difficult looking composite with effortless ease.

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Instructions on using Adobe Stock photos in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn

  • How to combine Photoshop in Photoshop
  • How to Use Layer Blending Modes
  • A cool trick for better blending of difficult areas
  • How to Clone stamp details
  • Add color grading to make digital art pop

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41 thoughts on “Combine photos to make digital art in Photoshop

  1. P,
    February 26, 2019 at 2:00 pm

    I started in version 5 more than 20 years ago

  2. Beverley Pohlner
    February 26, 2019 at 2:10 pm

    great stuff Colin. Now to find the time to try it out. Love your tutorials

  3. Jerry Wein
    February 26, 2019 at 2:20 pm

    Thanks Colin.
    Good video.
    I started on Photoshop 7 – you’d think I should be a master by now, but far from it.

  4. Margaret
    February 26, 2019 at 2:58 pm

    I started on Photoshop 4

  5. Dennis Zito
    February 26, 2019 at 2:59 pm

    Great tutorial Colin! I started out with CS2 version of Photoshop.

  6. February 26, 2019 at 3:15 pm

    Nice tutorial!
    I started on PhotoShop V1.0b (Beta) which the Knoll brothers were
    giving out at a trade show in CA back in the 80s.

  7. Domingos Rodrigues
    February 26, 2019 at 3:23 pm

    Great tutorials Colin, but most of us, I included, only have Photoshop CS6 or below.
    Thank you, great stuff.

    1. Colin Smith
      March 14, 2019 at 9:41 am

      This will work on CS6 too

  8. bonnie
    February 26, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    You are going to laugh – regarding the version of Photoshop I started with – Photoshop 5.5 – 1999 LOL
    Love this tutorial! You are the best!

  9. Su Hall
    February 26, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    Very cool! I did find some similar photos on Unsplash. Off to give this a whirl!
    Thank you!!

  10. Michael Fisher
    February 26, 2019 at 4:13 pm

    You may it so easy!

  11. Pascal Huwart
    February 26, 2019 at 4:18 pm

    Thank you for those tips, Collin. Blending modes are so powerfull! I started using Photoshop with the 5.0 version on Windows 95 and I’m still catching tricks from your tutorials. It seems to me that you changed something on the voice recording of this last one… If you didn’t change your mike’s position, or maybe the mike by itself, maybe you add some small room reverb on the soundtrack? Well, I just feel like it wasn’t a great idea (the musical background neither). English is no my first language and it’s getting kind of tricky for me to catch your speech… do you believe me? It’s no big deal. You shouldn’t worry for that. I just mention it in case you’re taking care of those kind of details. You’re doing a really good job with those videos. Thanks again.

  12. gaston
    February 26, 2019 at 4:30 pm

    I started with CS6. Great tuts !

  13. Albert
    February 26, 2019 at 4:33 pm

    As always, really good tutorial, Colin. I started with photo shop elements ( I think that’s what was called) 97?
    It came along with my first computer I bought. Since then I felt in love with the software, up to this day. 🙂

  14. Lois DiCicco
    February 26, 2019 at 6:26 pm

    Thanks, Colin. Started with CS2 in 2007. I’ve learned so much from you! So last week I blended two photos similar to this and remembered the Blend Mode technique of hiding the blacks. But I needed this tip! Instead of painting black to get the missing parts of the photo, I did a selection and copied the original back on top. It worked, but your way was easier and cleaner. Thanks:)

  15. February 26, 2019 at 7:09 pm

    I started with Photoshop 5.5.

  16. Betty Gott
    February 26, 2019 at 7:16 pm

    Loved it. Thanks so much for this and all the tutorials you send us!

  17. February 27, 2019 at 1:09 am

    Very cool tutorial. Amazed how lightened removes background then coming in using the brush. I remember a similar tutorial you did sometime ago as part of a Wacom instructional DVD creating collages…Thanks for the fantastic tutes!

  18. Terence
    February 27, 2019 at 3:58 am

    I started way back with Photoshop 7. I think that was about 2002/3?

  19. Denis Sharpington
    February 27, 2019 at 5:57 am

    cs5

  20. Jean-Marie GLORIEUX
    February 27, 2019 at 9:06 am

    CC2019

  21. Claude
    February 27, 2019 at 9:15 am

    I am not sure what version it was but it was in 2004.

  22. February 27, 2019 at 9:30 am

    I started on Photoshop 7! Been away for a while.
    Love all the tutorials you send, – have much to learn.

  23. Rodger
    February 27, 2019 at 10:34 am

    Not sure of the version number but my wife & I used one of the first versions of PS in 1990 in our graphic design & typesetting business. Prior to that we used Aldus Freehand and prior to that we were using something called Digital Darkroom…the latter only worked in grayscale, no color.

  24. Norman Wolfish
    February 27, 2019 at 11:05 am

    Colin you are the greatest. Your tutorials are always easy to follow and replicate. Keep up the cool work. I started with
    the first iteration of Photoshop.

  25. Cheri Lushbaugh
    February 27, 2019 at 9:32 pm

    Version 1. It had one layer and one undo!

  26. February 28, 2019 at 5:17 am

    My first PS version was CS3. This was an interesting video, I need to give it a try.

  27. ShashiJavali
    March 1, 2019 at 4:39 am

    Very nice and interesting video. Thank you.

  28. Peter Rienks
    March 3, 2019 at 5:56 am

    Goed gedaan Colin. Gebruikte versie 4.

  29. HELEN HAMPTON
    March 3, 2019 at 6:32 am

    the very first versions that where given away with the first digi cameras.

  30. Ken Johnston
    March 3, 2019 at 4:14 pm

    Went from traditional art medias to Photoshop 4 when it came out…

  31. Patrick
    March 3, 2019 at 5:57 pm

    Started with CS3

  32. Norman Share
    March 7, 2019 at 1:59 pm

    Always learn from and enjoy your tutorials.

  33. Dana Carr
    March 13, 2019 at 9:25 am

    I started with Photoshop 3 in Windows on a B&W monitor in 1992.

  34. erica.richards
    March 20, 2019 at 3:56 pm

    I don’t really remember, PS 3 or 4? Amazing how long you can use a program and barely scratch its surface. What a really cool tip on the clone tool! I had no idea.

  35. mike yates
    April 27, 2020 at 3:56 am

    Hi Colin thanks for your tutorials. well I started on CS6 and now I am on 2020CC. and still learning

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