 Anthony Green |
Working in Layers I have a series of 3 photos of my son jumping off a cliff, and I want to use Photoshop Elements 5 to put either the 3 photos together or to somehow put them onto the 1 photo so that I get an image with him on it in the different stages of his fall. Any advice gratefully received - thanks!
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Ariel Lepor |
I don't know how to use Elements, but I know there is a simple way to do this without layers (on Windows)... Open Paint, copy all three pictures into Paint, organize them the way you want, and save as jpg. Or, you could use the Collage tool in Picasa2 to get some nice effects.
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Richard Lynch |
Here's what I'd do (this assumes your images are flattened): 1. Open all three images. 2. Choose the one you want to go first, and make sure it is the active image (click on the title bar or choose it from the Window menu). 3. Choose Image>Resize>Canvas Size. This will open the Canvas Size dialog 4. Make the image at least 3 times the width of the current image (more if you want space between the photos). Be sure to anchor the image to the left: See the image I've uploaded. Click OK to accept the changes. 5. Choose the Move tool (press V) and then space the images on your screen so you can see all of them. 6. Activate the second image, then hold Shift, and click-and-drag the one image into the other. Release the mouse, and then the shift key. 7. Repeat step 6 with the third image. You'll have to use the Move tool to get the third image into place. You may want to play with spacing in the photo and add a border ... so you might give yourself some more canvas to play with before or after placing all the images. But now that you've got them all into one image, you can complete your image!
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Richard H. Turpin |
I did something like you are describing with a sequence of shots of a heron that jumped from one spot to another. I called it "Hoppin' Heron". You can view it at: http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/big.php?photoID=2994991&catID=&style=&rowNumber=87&memberID=143724 To create this composite image I placed the various images onto a canvas using one layer for each, but aligned them carefully to overlap, matching distinctive markings on each successive pair of images. Then I carefully erased selected portions of each layer to reveal the one(s) below. It helps to temporarily reduce the opacity of the layer you are working on in order to see what is below it. Takes some time, but is fun to do.
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Richard Lynch |
Hoppin Heron
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Gerald Pope |
Here's another example of a shot put together in much the same way described by Richard above. http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGallDetail.php?photoID=1086109 One thing that helps speed up the post-processing is to set the camera up on a tripod, frame the entire scene, and shoot away once the action begins without moving the camera. When you layer these successive photos in photoshop, they will line up perfectly with each other, and all you have left to do is erase the portion of each layer that you don't want. GP
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Gerald Pope |
here's that link again...
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