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Drag a File to Composite Images
Compositing multiple images in Photoshop is a fairly simple process — or at least,
it starts out that way. There are, of course, a number of technical and aesthetic issues
that you must resolve when you combine multiple images in a single design. Note:
When you created the
1. With aftermath.psd open, open the file Storm.jpg from your background file for
WIP>Movie folder. this project, you cre-
ated a raster image that
2. With Storm.jpg the active file in the document window, open the Image contains pixels. Digital
Size dialog box (Image>Image Size).
photographs and scans
Remember that you are also pixel-based,
can press Command- which is why you use
Option-I/Control-Alt-I Photoshop to edit and
to open the dialog box.
manipulate those types
This image is only 180 of files.
ppi, but it has a physical
size much larger than the
defined ad size. As with
the original bricks image,
the principle of effective
resolution might make this image usable in the composite ad.

3. Click Cancel to close the Image Size dialog box.

4. Open the Window>Arrange menu and choose 2-up Vertical to show both
open files at once.
As you saw in the Interface chapter, these options are useful for arranging and viewing
multiple open files within your workspace.

5. Choose the Move tool in the Tools panel.

6. Click in the Storm.jpg image window, drag into the aftermath.psd image
window, and then release the mouse button.
Basic compositing can be as simple as dragging a selection from one file to another. If Note:
no active selection appears in the source document, this action moves the entire active On Windows, the cursor
layer from the source document.
shows a plus sign to in-
dicate that you are add-
Move tool
ing the image as a new
layer in the document to
which you dragged it.

Click and drag from the Storm.jpg
window into the aftermath.psd window.

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