Joining 2 images together

[Topper]

Hi,

Ive just bought PSE6 and am wanting to take 2 different images of the same width and height and join them together side by side to make 1 complete jpeg.

Could anyone give me advice please :)

Chris

[cats4jan]

Open your first photo -

Double control click on the thumbnail of that layer in the layers palette - to change it from a background layer to a regular layer. (When your layer is a background layer - you are limited to what you can do to that layer - so always change a background layer to a regular layer)

Save your photo with a new name - (so as to not compromise your original)

then
image> resize> canvas size

double the width of the canvas to make room for your second photo
- the solid square in the grid is where your photo will end up after enlarging the canvas - so click either the left or right center - depending upon which side you want your original.

Open your second photo -
move it onto your first photo's canvas - into that blank space you created when you enlarged the canvas

merge your two layers.
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There are many, many ways to get that second photo onto the first photo's canvas

I keep my editing window on cascade so when I open multiple files they all open directly into the editing area. window> cascade

With both files open in the editing area - it's easy to drag/drop one file onto another.

[TonyW]

And if it's a Panorama you want to make (ie the two images were taken of a scene with some overlap) then File>New>Photomerge Panorama works well. There's a good description on page 371 of the User Manual pdf file that comes with PSE6.

Tony

[Topper]

Open your first photo -

Double control click on the thumbnail of that layer in the layers palette - to change it from a background layer to a regular layer. (When your layer is a background layer - you are limited to what you can do to that layer - so always change a background layer to a regular layer)

Save your photo with a new name - (so as to not compromise your original)

then
image> resize> canvas size

double the width of the canvas to make room for your second photo
- the solid square in the grid is where your photo will end up after enlarging the canvas - so click either the left or right center - depending upon which side you want your original.

Open your second photo -
move it onto your first photo's canvas - into that blank space you created when you enlarged the canvas

merge your two layers.
________________

There are many, many ways to get that second photo onto the first photo's canvas

I keep my editing window on cascade so when I open multiple files they all open directly into the editing area. window> cascade

With both files open in the editing area - it's easy to drag/drop one file onto another.

Thank You :)

That was spot on,only i couldn't find the option to 'merge' the layers ?

Once i had both images in the canvas i tried File > save as > jpeg and that did the trick ;)


Tony,ill be trying some panaorama merging shortly ;)

Thank you both so much.

Chris