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How to merge your Coin (or other) Photos in Photoshop Elements - Illustrated
Texast
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I hope this Step By Step instruction helps answer some questions I have seen about merging photos
in Photoshop Elements.
Step 1, Prepare your photo’s or scans and crop them to size, to get matching photos
make sure you size your pictures to the same height, 400 pixels should be large enough
to work with. (you can do this in Image > Resize > Picture) Open the first picture on your screen as shown.
Step 2, Click on Image > Resize > Canvas Size as shown.
Step 3, You are going to go a little more than double the width of the current photo, this leaves you room to
make the final crop at the end, be sure to click the top left square, this anchors the first photo in place,
otherwise it will move to the middle of the canvas.
Step 4, This is an example of what you should see on the screen.
Step 5, Open the second image that you have prepared to merge, again make sure it is the same pixel height
at the first picture (you can do this in Image > Resize > Picture)
Step 6, Choose the move tool (notice the toolbar for the highlighted tool being used) Left click and hold down
the mouse button and drag the second picture onto the canvas of the first.
Step 7, Once the picture is in place where you want it release the mouse button, if you need to center it more
you will notice a center spot which when you hold down the left mouse button with the pointer over that spot
will allow you to to adjust the position.
Step 8, You can now close the second picture and crop the first picture to remove any extra canvas.
Step 9, Go ahead and save your file, It will want to save it as a PhotoShop file by default, choose JPG as this is
the common format used on Ebay and other sources.
Your done, you have now merged your two photos into one.
I hope this step by step procedure answers some questions that many of you have about PhotoShop Elements
Tex
in Photoshop Elements.
Step 1, Prepare your photo’s or scans and crop them to size, to get matching photos
make sure you size your pictures to the same height, 400 pixels should be large enough
to work with. (you can do this in Image > Resize > Picture) Open the first picture on your screen as shown.
Step 2, Click on Image > Resize > Canvas Size as shown.
Step 3, You are going to go a little more than double the width of the current photo, this leaves you room to
make the final crop at the end, be sure to click the top left square, this anchors the first photo in place,
otherwise it will move to the middle of the canvas.
Step 4, This is an example of what you should see on the screen.
Step 5, Open the second image that you have prepared to merge, again make sure it is the same pixel height
at the first picture (you can do this in Image > Resize > Picture)
Step 6, Choose the move tool (notice the toolbar for the highlighted tool being used) Left click and hold down
the mouse button and drag the second picture onto the canvas of the first.
Step 7, Once the picture is in place where you want it release the mouse button, if you need to center it more
you will notice a center spot which when you hold down the left mouse button with the pointer over that spot
will allow you to to adjust the position.
Step 8, You can now close the second picture and crop the first picture to remove any extra canvas.
Step 9, Go ahead and save your file, It will want to save it as a PhotoShop file by default, choose JPG as this is
the common format used on Ebay and other sources.
Your done, you have now merged your two photos into one.
I hope this step by step procedure answers some questions that many of you have about PhotoShop Elements
Tex
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<< <i>Great info. I have Elements but do this stuff with Paint. Much easier. >>
Can anyone please explain how to do this with Paint?
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My process is similar, yet less automatic.
I have my two scans, then copy one and open a new file, roughly doubling the pixel width, then paste the first image in there, moving it to the left. Then I copy the second image and paste it into the large canvas, moving it into place on the right.
"La Vostra Nonna Ha Faccia Del Fungo"
To combine images, I use a simple program that came with my Sony camera; I think it's called "MGI Photosuite." I have a large image of a felt tray (any large background image will do) onto which I simply paste obverse and reverse images. I position the two, crop the excess background and save.
This one was done in a matter of a few seconds. -Preussen
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<< <i>Great info. I have Elements but do this stuff with Paint. Much easier. >>
Can anyone please explain how to do this with Paint? >>
ANYONE?
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Thanks for the great explanation,
I have been wondering how to do this for a long time
but couldn't quite get it right.
Your screen shots were excellent.
This must have taken quite a bit of time
and you aided many people.
Thanks again
By using it you can select the pictures you want to join and it makes collage of them allmost automactlly.
Don't know how to get screen shots of it but it is pretty simple to use I was able to figure it out.
<< <i>I will note that after croping your photos and sizing them to the same size. There is a command under the file tab called Photomerge.
By using it you can select the pictures you want to join and it makes collage of them allmost automactlly.
Don't know how to get screen shots of it but it is pretty simple to use I was able to figure it out.
I agree far easier, just crop your images and resize to the same size and use photomerge.