Adding a second image

[Al...@adobeforums.com]

Hi,
This must be a simple task, but when I open an image and latter decide to change the sky how do I bring in the second as when I try it it changes the original image to the new one.

Alan

[Denn...@adobeforums.com]

Alan,

It sounds like you are just starting out in Photoshop. There is a ton of information and tutorials on the Web that is available for free. To start, I recommend you check out the video tutorials on Russell Brown's site - in particular the tutorial titled "The Day With No Sky (Part Two)". Here is the link:

<http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html#podcast>

[Al...@adobeforums.com]

Cheers Dennis,
Thanks for the imfo,I have viewed the tutorial but it does not show how to get the sky image onto the photoshop workspace.

Alan

[curt_...@adobeforums.com]

If you have move tool (top one) you just left click on photo 1 and drag it to photo 2. Release and photo 1 is added as a new layer to photo 2. Adjust the opacity to see both images.

[Al...@adobeforums.com]

Cheers Curt,
I know that bit,what I am trying to get to is I've got one image open in Photoshop, but if I need to open another image latter say to change the sky, I go to File, Open then pick the image I want and open it, it comes up in photoshop but the 1st image cannot be seen to work on it or to move the second image to the first. I could move both images to a file and open both images together, but at the time I don't know which 2 images I need if any.
So how do I get the second image to appear on the same workspace as the first when I open it. have seen it happen on some tutorials but they dont show how they just seem to open it and its there, but when I do it, the same thing does not happen.
Alan

[John Joslin]

So how do I get the second image to appear on the same workspace?

Window > Arrange > Float all, then drag them around. (Or cascade)

[Al...@adobeforums.com]

Think I have solved it, checked preferences and changed it to cascade and now the second image shows on the work space.
Thanks for every ones help.
Alan

[CR_Hen...@adobeforums.com]

You didn't say which version of PS you have, but if it is CS4 then likely you are in tabbed mode. Across the top of the workspace there will be tab(s) you can click on to work on a given image. To have both images viewable at once you can click on a tab and drag it out of the main frame. You can do that to all tabs.

There is also a preference setting that will cause images opened using File-Open to come up in 'windowed' not tabbed format. There is a small 'gotchya' with dragging and dropping image files on the PS CS4 workspace but that is the subject of another thread...

[Michael...@adobeforums.com]

Go to Window>>Arrange>>Tile Vertically (or Horizontally) Now you should see
both images on the screen at the same time. Get the move tool and click and
drag one onto the other. Adjust the layer order and opacity of the layers
to see your images. You may have to cut away part of the one image so the
other image shows through in place of where the cut away section was.

Michael

[Al...@adobeforums.com]

Thanks all for your help,when you find out its easy to do.

Alan