How to Put One Picture Into Another in Photoshop

Using Photoshop gets more exciting when you begin to add photos into photos creating layers of images and achieving a collage effects. Each layer can be edited in a variety of ways including making the added photos transparent. Cutting objects from one photo and placing them in another adds a creative twist to your composition, giving the object a new environment. There are two ways to place photos inside a Photoshop file; insert and copy and paste.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• photo files
• computer
• Photoshop

1. Open a photo file in Photoshop and adjust the dpi to match the output of the artwork; 72 dpi for the web or 300 dpi for a good quality print. Most photo files are created at 72 dpi and will not need to be adjusted for the web. When you increase the dpi the size of the output will be reduced.

2. Open a second photo file and adjust the dpi to match the original photo you are placing the photo in. Use the marquee tool to outline the whole photo or section of the photo you want to place into the original file by the copy and paste method. The advantage of this method is that it allows you to manipulate the file before it in placed into the original file.

3. Copy the highlighted photo or photo section and then switch to the original file.

4. 
   Menu used to make the layers tranparent

   Paste the secondary photo file in the original file. The pasted photo file will become a layer and can be manipulated, moved, resized and made transparent.

5. Use the drop down menu “file” and select “place” to insert a another photo into the work surface. It will become another layer. The second photo can be manipulated as a layer.

Tips & Warnings

• If you want a feathered edge on the placed photo, when you use the marquee tool to select the photo or a portion of it, add the number of pixels from the edge you want feathered in the menu box. This option appears when you select the marquee tool.