Basic photoshop question. Merging 2 photos.

[sbj405]

What's the easiest way? I have Photoshop7.0 if it matters.

[NV Whino]

1. Could you give some more info?

Putting pic side by side? On top of each other? What?

[sbj405]

2. Sorry. Just side by side.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Just make the canvas large enough to fit both photos...

Drag both photos onto it, line them up, then trim the canvas (Image --> Trim...)

[NV Whino]

4. Here ya go

I'm just about to do the same myself.

Go to image on the top menu on one of the photos and hit canvas size. Increase to include total width of two photos. Move the grey area to left or right depending on where you want to place other photo.

Go to second photo. Select all and drag (or copy and paste) into other file. It will create a new layer.

Dim the new layer a bit so you can see where you are aligning it with the original layer. When finished aligning, go back to 100% transparency and flatten image.

You might want to do a "save as" for the combined image, which will preserve your two original images untouched.

[sbj405]

5. Thank you. That worked.

And much easier than using layers as their help menu recommends.

[NV Whino]

6. here's what I just did

3 photos combined for a panorama. (After combining, I adjusted the levels of the two end ones to match the center one, then replaced the sky with a blend sampled from the left photo. This could use more work. You can still see the edge lines from center and left photo.