Computer Graphics with Photoshop

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combining pictures

cedoming@eudoramail.com

2005-06-30, 4:18 am

does anyone know how to combine pictures so as to make one picture.
i'm trying to combine pictures of my sister and her fiance for their
wedding to make pretend future children pictures. or is there perhaps
a website that does this. any help greatly appreciated.
thanks,
cd

Man of 1001 Faces

2005-06-30, 4:18 am

in article 1120103109.522158.34340@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
cedoming@eudoramail.com at cedoming@eudoramail.com wrote on 06/29/2005 8:45
PM:

> does anyone know how to combine pictures so as to make one picture.
> i'm trying to combine pictures of my sister and her fiance for their
> wedding to make pretend future children pictures. or is there perhaps
> a website that does this. any help greatly appreciated.
> thanks,
> cd
>

Hire an artist to do it for you. It is beyond your capabilities.

Andrew Morton

2005-06-30, 4:18 am

As an example, see the "New head" and "Photo composition" articles at
www.myjanee.com

Andrew

L Mahoney

2005-12-17, 10:17 pm

cedoming@eudoramail.com wrote:
> does anyone know how to combine pictures so as to make one picture.
> i'm trying to combine pictures of my sister and her fiance for their
> wedding to make pretend future children pictures. or is there perhaps
> a website that does this. any help greatly appreciated.
> thanks,
> cd
>
I am a rank beginner so dont know if I can help. Im working on a collage
of my son's cats. I made a new document and gave it a background color
so it can be the background (backgrounds cant be transparent). Then I
called up 3 of his cat pictures. I used an elliptical marquee around one
cat's head and pressed Control-J to make it a layer (remembering to
click on the picture Im working on each time in the layers menu so the
tools will work on it). Then I used the move tool to drag the cat head
over to the new background. You can do the same for any of the pictures
you have open on your screen, just being sure you have clicked on the
pic you are working on (usually when i find my tools wont work, its
because I havent clicked on the right layer). Or if you dont want to
make a selection, you can just use the move tool to move the entire
picture over to your new background, and do that on each of the pictures
you want on there. Then probably you could use blur or smooth tools or
the clone stamp to soften any edges you want softened.
Before you add any pictures,
If you want a pattern on your background page, you can go to any image
open and use the rectangular marquee to select a small box of what you
would like on your background, then move it with the move tool to the
background. Then press control T to get a bounding box around the
square, and drag the handles to cover the entire page.

I hope this helps. I am trying to learn photoshop and am SO CONFUSED.