Add 2 or more stills to one canvas

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Carolyn_Fierer
Oct 10, 2005
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I am brand new to Photoshop but have spent a good deal of time searching help, forums and tutorials. I see instructions to drag…. but I have not been able to so.

I would like to open a new canvas/project (whichever it is called) and drag a picture from Bridge to drop onto the new canvas….or copy and pasate.

I would like to drop about 4 pictures to create a montage that can be used in Premiere Pro to do a motion in and out.

Obviously I am missing something so a step-by-step instruction would be helpful.

Thanks.
Carolyn

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YrbkMgr
Oct 10, 2005
The easiest thing to do Carolyn is, create a new canvas that is big enough to hold all of the pictures you will be adding, noting ppi of the images.

Open the other images. Click on the Move tool, and drag the image onto the new canvas. Rinse and repeat with the other images.
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Oct 10, 2005
And you drag the image of Canvas A onto Canvas B by clicking on Canvas A, and then click-dragging from the image icon on the layers pallette for that canvas onto canvas B.
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YrbkMgr
Oct 10, 2005
and then click-dragging from the image icon on the layers pallette for that canvas onto canvas B.

You don’t need to do it from the palette Michael. You can just drag a background onto a new image.
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Oct 10, 2005
You can just drag a background onto a new image.

I learn something new every day.
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Carolyn_Fierer
Oct 11, 2005
"noting ppi of the images"
Is the reason to note to make sure all the images will fit on the new canvas….or is there some other reason?

"Rinse and repeat with the other images"
What does rinse mean?

Your suggestions worked and removed a hurdle I wasn’t able to get over. Also learned how to reply in the forum…copying a portion to which you are specifically replying!

Thanks so much! As a newcomer to experience the response of people willing to share and help is awesome.
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chrisjbirchall
Oct 11, 2005
Another way is to open a new canvas and use the Edit>Place command to insert images as "Smart Objects".

This method has two advantages. First, you don’t have to open each of the images to be inserted. Second, you can resize each smart object as many times as you like without losing quality.

Hope this helps.

Chris.
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chrisjbirchall
Oct 11, 2005
"Rinse and repeat with the other images" What does rinse mean?

Hair shampoo terminology

Also learned how to reply in the forum…copying a portion to which you are specifically replying!

Adding a right chevron ">" at the start of the paragraph you are quoting will indent it as above.
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YrbkMgr
Oct 11, 2005
Is the reason to note to make sure all the images will fit on the new canvas….or is there some other reason?

It is to suggest that, if you open a new canvas and it has a ppi of 300, and you drag an image with a ppi of 72 onto it, it will be very, very tiny. Conversely, if you have a new canvas that is 72 ppi and drag a new image onto it that has a ppi of 300, it will be bigger than your canvass (most likely).

So it’s a good idea to have the ppi match.

"Rinse and repeat with the other images" What does rinse mean?

That just means, repeat the process for as many images as you have – just drag ’em over.

Michael,

I learn something new every day.

Me too. That’s what I love about this place.
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Phosphor
Oct 11, 2005
I believe we have successfully located the only person left on the planet who has never read the instructions on a shampoo bottle. 😉

(((Note to self: Contact all hair products manufacturers and assure them that it’s now perfectly safe to remove those instructions from their bottles.)))

XD
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chrisjbirchall
Oct 11, 2005
Contact all hair products manufacturers and assure them that it’s now perfectly safe to remove those instructions from their bottles

Hmmm. Personally I think all such things should be labelled in braille.

I remember sitting in the bath rinsing the shampoo off my hair and reaching for the conditioner.

I’d massaged it well in before realizing my dear wife had left a bottle of IMMAC on the side of the bath. (since renamed VEET the hair removal cream!! )

Chris.
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Phosphor
Oct 11, 2005
As someone who fanatically valued my waist length hair at one time, I have a by-now built in protection meme that would never allow that to happen. Not blindfolded, not drunk, not in a hurry, no way, no how.

Call it hair Spidey sense, if you will, but it just WOULD NOT happen.

Soooo, Chris. Did you end up shaving it all off and starting over?
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YrbkMgr
Oct 11, 2005
There’s a locker room story in there somewheres…
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chrisjbirchall
Oct 11, 2005
Oh dear! I can almost sense the "off topic" police lurking around the next corner.

Phos, I’ll respond quickly before this goes the way of the wiskey thread this morning!

No I didn’t shave it off. Luckily I realised my mistake in time – but there were a few scary handfulls I can tell you!

I too used to "sit on my hair" back in my band days, but it was a respectible shoulder length during the "revenge of VEET" incident.

There – I’ve said too much. F/Host will pounce any minute! I’m off to the lounge! <g>

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