Blending Objects - i.e. strawberry to jar of jam

I am using Illustrator CS3, in Windows Vista. I once saw instructions to blend a large strawberry into a jar of strawberry jam, sort of left to right across the page starting with the strawberry and ending up with a jar of jam... I can't remember where I saw it, or how to do it.
I've checked out the 'help' files, but 'blend' or 'make blend' doesn't work. I have two objects which are photos... I saved them in Photoshop as .psd files and placed them into AI... made the backgrounds transparent... but I can't get them to blend - one is a pic of my husband's face, the other is a pic of an apple. He eats so many apples I think he just may turn into an apple! Hence the reason for wanting to do this... please help!!!
Thanks,
Jennifer

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