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Compositing multiple images in Photoshop is a fairly simple process — or at least, it
starts out that way. But there are a number of technical and aesthetic issues you must Note:
resolve whenever you combine multiple images into a single design. Digital photographs and
In this and the next several exercises, you will use several methods to composite scans are pixel-based,
multiple images into a single Photoshop file. In the next stage of the project, you will which is why you use
learn various techniques for combining the different pieces into a unified design. Photoshop to edit and
manipulate those types
1. With forefathers.psd open, choose File>Open. of files.

2. Navigate to your WIP>Liberty folder. Select bottle.jpg, parchment.tif,
and quill.jpg, then click Open.
Remember, you can press Command/Control to select multiple non-consecutive files in
the Open dialog box. If you press Shift, you select multiple consecutive files.

You should now have four images open in Photoshop — the background file you created
earlier, the parchment scan, and the bottle and quill photographs. The document tabs
show the color model of each file.

The tabs show
all four open
documents.

3. Choose Window>Arrange>4-Up to show all four images in the document
window at one time.

As you saw in the Interface chapter, these options are useful for arranging and viewing
multiple open files within your workspace.

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