Combining/composting photos?

[Tom Kirkman]

Not sure I have the right terminology here, but what I'd like to do is to combine two photos. I have some shots of a round object and had to take more than one in order to get the 360 degree view. Now I want to put these photos together so the round images are viewed as one flat image, which would include the complete 360 degree image. Make sense?

Not sure if I want to use some form of layering technique of if there is another way. Your advice is appreciated. Thanks.

[Byron Gale]

Tom,

Without having an exact picture of what you are working with, I wonder if File > New > Photomerge Panorama would be helpful in combining your images.

Are you thinking of something like a Mercator map?

As for "composting" your pictures, bury them in soil and leaves, stir every few weeks for about a year, and there you have it! :twisted: (Sorry, I couldn't resist...)

Byron

[Chuck S.]

Tom,


As for "composting" your pictures, bury them in soil and leaves, stir every few weeks for about a year, and there you have it! :twisted: (Sorry, I couldn't resist...)

Byron

Byron.....that's terrible.....:p

[TonyW]

Byron: Doing it with worms is a lot quicker - some people claim 14 days :D

Tony

[Tom Kirkman]

I figured that would get such a response - I thought the same thing when I heard that term used.

What I'm after, is in producing a single flat photo that shows both sides of a round object. My idea is to take the two images and put them side by side, but combine them somehow so they act as a single image.

[kimi_boo]

Byron... do behave. ;)

Tom if you go to the Killer Tips on the home page. Go to the Archive, pick the one that says Clipping Mask it will give you some guidance. The other option is a layer mask where you paint the tow images together.

The boys will be happy to help. Won't you boys. :D

[Diana]

I figured that would get such a response - I thought the same thing when I heard that term used.

What I'm after, is in producing a single flat photo that shows both sides of a round object. My idea is to take the two images and put them side by side, but combine them somehow so they act as a single image.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you don't need to do any blending, just want to put the two images side by side into one image.

You should be able to do that this way. Crop the two photos to the same size. Create a new document with File > New > Blank File and make the dimensions the same resolution and height as your cropped images and the width wide enough to contain the two side by side. For each of the two images, use Ctrl-A to select all, Ctrl-C to copy, then go to the new blank document and Ctrl-V to paste. After you get both pasted on to the new document, use the move to to move them into position beside each other.

If this isn't what you want, let us know and we'll try another approach.

Diana

[Tom Kirkman]

I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

[sarahh5]

I was just about to ask a similar question then saw this thread so thought I'd tag on here. I have a series of 7 photos taken in burst mode of a kid doing slalom on the ski slopes and I want to show her 7 times in one image as she skis round the poles. The photos are all basically the same, only the position of the skier changes. I've been faffing around with them all on separate layers then erasing the bit where I want her to show through which works for the first two layers then it all goes to pot! I changed the opacity on the layers so I can see what I want to achieve but just can't get there! Any suggestions gratefully received.
Thanks, Sarah

[Diana]

Sarah, for what it sounds like you want to do, using Layer Masks would be ideal. This thread has informatin about downloading and installing Grants Tools (which includes a Layer Mask action along with other nifty tools):

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?p=299679

I also have a tutorial available using Grants Tools to blend images together here:

http://www.modempool.com/dday/dianas_webpage_000002.htm
(scroll to the bottom of the list to find it)

Hope this helps.

Diana

[sarahh5]

Thanks very much Diana for your advice. I do have Grants tools and kind of knew I should be using them instead of the "rub out pixels forever" eraser tool but couldn't quite get my head around the mask thing. But, now I have your Blending images using Masks tutorial printed out, I'm going to have another go at the image using the layer mask technique but in the meantime, here's my rather crass version of my eraser tool attempts before I received your most helpful reply. Just don't look too closely at the joins!
Cheers again.
Sarah

[vawitt]

Hi, Sarah. Very cool picture! Do post the finished product so we can all ogle it :)

~Val in cloudy IL

[Wendy]

Hi Sarah ...

Grant did some notes on how to use the tools ... click on the mask one and you will see an image where the mask is used. That should help you :)

http://www.cavesofice.org/~grant/Challenge/Tools/RunTools.html

Wendy