Photoshop Tutorial: Align Layers Command

Series Summary

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for photo editing today. It is a program that allows the user to be very hands on with images and manipulate the characteristics of the picture in whatever way they feel is suitable. It gives the user the ability to add specific features only available through the program to their images. Photoshop is also now being used to create images from scratch at a design level. The impact of this is that anyone with a computer is now able to design and create as they see fit. It is no longer reserved to established and wealthy designers. In this free video, you will learn the basics of image correction in Photoshop. A professional designer will demonstrate how to use commands such as align layers, color balance and levels. Photoshop users can also tweak their photos by blending layers and using other color adjustment tools. Take an overexposed photo or one with color shifts and transform it into the masterwork it could have been in the first place.

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to show you the auto aligned layers option in our edit drop down menu on our menu bar. If you look over here at our menu bar, you can see we have edit. Well first let’s take a look at our palate that I've got going over here first. As you can see, I have three pictures put together. And all of these are the same, are three pictures of a kind of a panoramic view of San Francisco. And I've taken it with a regular camera without the panoramic edging on it. So, these are very short photos. So I want to put all three of these together and make them one view. So if I come over here and hit edit and come to, actually let's select all my layers first. Holding down the shift key, I can select each layer as I come up. Then hit edit and let's say auto align layers. Now it's going to give us an option here. We can do it either auto perspective, cylindrical or reposition only. Well, I want to go ahead and go with perspective because it really doesn't matter. I think the perspective will give me a better view of how I want it to look. As you see, our computer is going to think about it for a minute. And our finished product here, as you can see, is it has aligned these photos as best as it can by analyzing all the information. And I think it's actually done a really well job here of aligning all of these photos. And you see the blend lines are really good. Looks like it lined it up perfectly. So that's a great way of taking your photos that you have taken multiple photos of a scenery or something and placing them all together the easiest way without having to do it all manually. So play around with it, have fun and enjoy."