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How do I merge cropped images into one photo?


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Hi everyone,

This is an embarrassing question as i'm sure it's a basic photoshop tool, but I can't figure out how to take crops out of images, and merge them together to form one photo.

I have 4 photos of individual people, and I want to take equal 'slices' of them to merge into one- but still keeping the image the same size as a photo.

I know that my photo sizes are 3543px by 2362 px, and I know how to crop the images to the right size (885.75px by 2362px) but I can't figure out how to combine them.

Should I be using layers?

I have taken photoshop courses but I don't remember covering situations like this, and google hasn't been a help either!

p.s i'm using CS4

Thanks, Karen
 
Welcome Kareny06....


You must crop/resize the 4 photos, each to the same size but a quarter of a full size photo .

Take one photo, double the layer icon to assign the image on a layer .

Enlarge the canvass to the size of a full size photo to accomodate the other 3 images.

Click and drag the 3 other photos into the image ( these will be placed on its own layer by PS ) and position in place.

Flatten the image.....

Hope this helps ...
 
The thing is... I don't know how your photos look like. Whether you could maintain the photo orientation ( landscape or portrait ) or change it to accommodate all four in a standard Photo size..... which will be Landscape orientation.
 
Thansk dv8_fx! i'm halfway there now following your instructions, but I'm stuck at dragging the other photos in. I've got my first picture as the background layer, and i've increased my canvas size, but how do I drag my other pictures in? The pics are saved on my desktop. I read that you can drag pics in from photobin- but I don't seem to have that in my photoshop.
hope you don't mind helping me out a bit more!

Thanks, Karen
 
if the images are already cut from a background you can simply select all and copy paste them to the image you want to put them. Photoshop will automatically put them on a separate layer. There are a couple ways you can use control a / control c to copy and then move to the image you want to paste to and click control v. The commands in photoshop are Select>all then Edit>copy to copy the image to your clipboard then Edit>paste on the image you want to paste to. After you get your selected image where you want it you can resize it by pressing control t or Edit>free transform. If you pull on one of the corners you can resize if you use the shift key will you pull the corner you will resize the image proportionately. You should also be able to click on the image and move it in the transform mode. To save the transformation you simply need to click on the check mark in the upper right on the tool menu bar.
 
Kareny06 said:
Thansk dv8_fx! i'm halfway there now following your instructions, but I'm stuck at dragging the other photos in. I've got my first picture as the background layer, and i've increased my canvas size, but how do I drag my other pictures in? The pics are saved on my desktop. I read that you can drag pics in from photobin- but I don't seem to have that in my photoshop.
hope you don't mind helping me out a bit more!

Thanks, Karen
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Sorry for late reply..... time zone difference......

You have to open the pictures in Photoshop then click on the image and drag them into the new image......

Carries' idea can also work..... drag the next picture in and assign its layer below your first picture & move it into place... this makes it look like its cropped on one side. Delete the part you don't need.... then move on to the next pix following the last set of moves......
 
Feel free to post your images here so we can see what you're trying to do.
You're probably going to start with each image on it's own layer and go from there.

So that's should be the first step.
Open the main background image.

With that open and PS NOT at full screen but windowed, you can drag the other images to the PS window.
They will become independent layers to the background layer.

It will be a lot easier if you were to post the images here though.
If the individual JPG's are larger than the forum allows jut put them all in a zip file and give us specific details of what you want to do.
 
Thanks everyone for the great tips :)
I use photoshop at work, but my PC was replaced this afternoon and my suite has dissapeared! So once I get it up again i'll be able to try both the copying and pasting (thanks Carrie) and also the dragging.
thanks Steve for the offer of putting my photos here, but I don't want to burden anyone with my silly project! I'll keep you all updated with how I go and hopefully i'll have something to show you next time..
 
Kareny06 said:
...... thanks Steve for the offer of putting my photos here, but I don't want to burden anyone with my silly project! I'll keep you all updated with how I go and hopefully i'll have something to show you next time..
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Your welcome but remember this forum was established to help people with their Photoshop skills and projects, even the silly ones. :wink:
 
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Hi everyone, hope you all had good Easter breaks!
I have uploaded here my picture- I know in my earlier post I said it was photo's of people- but since we are all friends now I guess I can be honest and admit that it was actually pictures of kittens!
Has anyone ever tried taking a photo with 4 kittens staying still in it?? its near impossible so I thought it'd combine one :)
You will note that the first two pictures are a but shorter than the other two, but I plan on cropping it a bit shorter anyway so I didn't go back to fix that up.

Thanks to you all for helping me, in the end I ended up copying all and pasting the picture accross- It all seems so easy now!
 
haha glad u guys like my picture! I don't own these kittens but I fostered them for 3 weeks while we found them permanent homes, so I just wanted something to remind me of them!
 
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