A collage consisting of many details, a drawing scanned in parts, or a panorama consisting of several shots can be assembled into one image using the tools of the Photoshop editor.
Necessary
- - Photoshop program;
- - files with images.
Instructions
Step 1
Photoshop allows you to automatically combine pictures that have common fragments using the Photomerge option. To put this technique into practice, click on the Photomerge item found in the Automate group of the File menu. Click the Browse button in the window that opens and select the files you want to glue.
Step 2
If the selected images do not have matching parts, on the basis of which the program could combine them, you will receive a notification about the impossibility of automatic gluing. However, by dragging the preview of open images from the top of the Photomerge window to the middle, you can manually overlay one image on top of another. In this case, the last image added to the window will be partially masked.
Step 3
Having enabled the Snap to Image option in the Photomerge settings, after clicking on the OK button, you will receive a merged layer assembled from several images. After selecting the Keep as Layers item, an image consisting of several layers will open in the Photoshop window.
Step 4
Typically, the Photomerge option is used to merge panoramas from separate images, but you can try to use it to merge fragments of scanned images.
Step 5
A more time-consuming way of assembling a picture from disparate files is to insert fragments into one document, increase the size of the canvas and resize using transformation tools. Load the files necessary for work into the graphic editor using the Open option of the File menu.
Step 6
If the pictures to be stitched differ in size, insert the smaller pictures on top of the largest one. To do this, go to the window of the file intended for insertion, select its contents with the Ctrl + A combination and send it to the clipboard using the Ctrl + C keys. Paste the copied over the large image with Ctrl + V.
Step 7
Use the Move Tool to move the pictures. You can change their size and angle using the Free Transform option of the Edit menu. If you need to hide part of one of the layers that make up the image for complete alignment of the fragments, click on the Add layer mask button located at the bottom of the Layers palette. By painting over the part of the created mask with black, you will make the part of the layer transparent. To work with the mask, select the Brush tool.
Step 8
If the picture, composed of separate fragments, turned out to be larger than the canvas on which it was assembled, use the Canvas Size option of the Image menu to increase the canvas. The jagged parts of the edges of images located on different layers can be cropped with the Crop tool.
Step 9
To merge the images into one layer, use the Flatten Image option from the Layer menu. However, this will deprive yourself of the possibility of separate editing of the contents of the layers. By saving the image with all layers and masks using the Save As option of the File menu into a psd document, you will retain the ability to change individual components of the image. Select.jpg"
