Blend Images

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Click to upload or drag and drop

Select exactly 2 images (Max 10MB each)

ℹī¸ How it works:
  • Select exactly 2 images to blend
  • Choose a style — transition, overlay or double exposure — and adjust it
  • Preview live and download

Blend Two Images Together Online

Combine two photos into a single composition with our free image blender. Create smooth transitions, simple overlays, or artistic double-exposure effects. Upload exactly two images, choose a style, fine-tune it, watch the live preview, and download the full-resolution result. However you think of it — putting two pictures together, laying one picture over another, or making a double exposure photo — it is the same few steps. No sign-up and no watermarks.

How to Blend Two Images

  1. Click the upload area above and select exactly two images (up to 10 MB each).
  2. Pick a style: for a Transition, choose the direction (horizontal, vertical, diagonal or radial) and tune the seam position and softness; for Overlay or Double Exposure, use the strength slider. Choose how the sizes are matched (Fit, Crop, or Larger). The preview updates live, and you can swap which image is on top.
  3. Click to process and download the merged image.

Blend Styles

  • Transition – a smooth merge from one image into the other in any direction (horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or radial), with adjustable seam position and softness — great for split/transition art and photo merges
  • Overlay – lay one image over the other with adjustable transparency, for a simple ghosted/double-print look
  • Double Exposure – a screen blend that combines a (usually dark) subject with a texture or landscape, for the classic double-exposure effect

Creative Uses

  • Double-exposure portraits combined with landscapes or textures
  • Blending a logo or texture into a photograph
  • Smooth gradient transitions between two scenes
  • Layering textures onto photos for artistic poster designs
  • Mixing two shots into a single creative composite
  • Putting two photos on top of each other so both stay visible

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Choose how they're matched: Fit stretches the second image to the first's size, Crop trims it to the same aspect ratio, and Larger scales both up to the bigger dimensions. For best results use images with similar aspect ratios.

Use Transition for a smooth merge between the two photos — pick the direction and tune the seam position and softness. Use Overlay to ghost one image over the other with the transparency slider, and Double Exposure for the classic dark-subject-plus-texture look. The live preview makes it easy to compare.

When two images sit on top of each other, a blend mode is the rule that decides what each final pixel becomes. Desktop editors offer a long list of them. The ones worth knowing are Normal, which simply mixes the two by transparency; Multiply, which keeps whatever is darker and is used for shadows and stains; Screen, the opposite, which keeps whatever is brighter and is how light effects and double exposures are made; Difference, which shows only where the two images disagree; and contrast-based modes such as Overlay and Soft Light, which darken the dark areas and lighten the light ones at the same time.

This tool gives you three of the most useful outcomes rather than the full list. Transition is a Normal blend whose mix ratio changes across the frame, so one photo gives way to the other along a direction you choose — a masked blend rather than a mode in the strict sense. The style labelled Overlay here is a Normal blend at a fixed transparency; note that it is not the contrast-based Overlay mode. Double Exposure is a genuine Screen blend, which is exactly why it wants a dark subject.

Multiply, Difference and the contrast modes are not available here.

The blend is rendered from your full-resolution originals and downloaded as a high-quality JPEG. To change the format, use our Convert Image tool.

Up to 10 MB per image. For larger files, shrink them first with our Compress Image tool.

They shape the seam on a Transition blend. Position moves where the changeover sits — at 50 the two images meet in the middle, lower values give more of the second image, higher values more of the first. Softness sets how wide the fade is: a low value gives an almost hard edge between the two photos, a high value spreads the blend across most of the frame. For a gradual, dreamy merge, keep softness high and leave position near the centre.

Because Double Exposure works by letting the brighter parts of each image win. Wherever one photo is dark, the other shows through; wherever both are bright, the result is brighter still. That is what produces the classic effect — but it also means two light images combine into something pale and flat. The fix is to use a dark subject, such as a silhouette or a portrait against a dark background, with a texture or landscape as the second image. Lowering the transparency also pulls the result back towards your first photo.

Yes, for every style. On a Transition, the first image occupies the starting side and the second the far side. On an Overlay, the second is laid over the first. On a Double Exposure, the first image is the one the effect is mixed back into, so it is the one that should carry your main subject. There is a swap control in the panel, so if the result looks inside out you can reverse the order without re-uploading anything.

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