I rarely use a photo editor – and then only to add captions – so I need some help.
[ul][li]Photoshop Elements 2020[/li][li]MacBook Pro[/li][li]MacOS Mojave version 10.14.6[/ul][/li]
I want to take two images and merge them together. I can open them in Photoshop, but I can’t see a way to copy one onto the other, or to copy them both into a new document. I looked online, and it says to open a blank document and drag images into it. Photoshop opens in fullscreen. Ordinarily, I’d just resize the window by grabbing a corner and dragging. It’s not letting me do this. I can Maximise, Minimise, or Close the window, but I can’t resize it. I can open a Finder window over Photoshop; but when I drag a file onto a blank document, it just opens the image as if I used Open. If I try to drag another image into the space, it opens another document.
So: Since I can’t drag images into a workspace, how to I merge two images together?
I don’t use Elements, but they way you do this in Photoshop is with Layers.
And, if you want it to open in a Window, put your pointer at the top of the screen, and then click the green button when it appears.
I opened Photoshop, clicked on Help, and typed ‘layers’. It gave several options, each of which pointed to places on the toolbar. All of the choices were greyed out. I tried the same after opening a blank document (or whatever they’re called in Photoshop) with the same results. I need help getting started.
I clicked on the green button, the window shrunk to one that I could resize. Thanks.
FWIW, I was able to create the image I wanted by dragging the two images into a Word document, then using command+shift+4 to get a screenshot. But I’d like to learn how to do this in Photoshop.
In Photoshop there’s several ways, here’s one: Ctrl/Command+A to Select All, Ctrl/Cmd-C Copy, go the the other window and ctrl/cmd paste and you get both layers in the same window. The one you just pasted will be topmost. In Photoshop you can see them both in the Layers palette and choose opacity and blend mode for each.
Again in Photoshop, not Elements, the bottom most layer is special and called the Background layer. You can’t drag it around unless you unlock it / convert it to a regular layer. There’s a little ‘lock’ icon in the layer palette that you can click on and the background turns into a regular layer. Then you can use the Move tool (four-arrow icon) to drag it around and even into another window.
I tried (once again) to drag the files onto the blank page. I was hoping to avoid screenshots, but this is what I got. You can see that at the bottom of the page is a thumbnail for the blank page, a thumbnail for an image, and a thumbnail for the image on the active page. I can cmd+A and I get the dashed outline letting me know the image is selected. When I cmd+C, it goes ding!, which is how this computer says ‘I don’t wanna.’
Man I wish I had the app in front of me. How about this? With the setup I see in your screenshot, cmd+A, cmd+C, then click on the blank page image at the bottom. You then should see that same blank page at the top, correct? Now cmd-V.