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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: Combining two images in Elements
I need to combine two seperate files (two scanned documents in JPEG) into one file. Anyone know how I can do this in Elements? _________________ Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi
Not sure quite what you want to do, but the simplest way would be to load the first jpeg, open the second and copy and paste it over the first and set the top layer Opacity to 50% in the layers palette. Depending on the type of document it is, you could try the blending modes instead which is to the left of the opacity box and will have 'normal' by the drop down arrow. _________________
Thanks! Actually, I don't want them on top of each other, I want them side by side, so each page can be read... but right now each page is it's own JPEG file, and I have to submit them together as a single file. It seems like it would be a simple thing to do, I just don't know how to go about it. Sorry for not being very clear in my first post. _________________ Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi
Nothing is simple if you don't know how to do it. Open your first image in Elements, Click > Image > Resize > Canvas size. The palette that comes up shows the current image size at the top, below that you need to enter a size that is double the width of your image but the same height and below that the arrows allow you to choose where the current image will be placed on the new canvas, centre for centred, left for left etc. Once you have the new canvas size, open your other image, Select > All, Edit > Copy. Go back to the resized canvas image and Edit > Paste to put the second image in. Click the Move tool (top of the tools palette) and move the second image to where you want it. Once you are happy you can flatten the image (Layer > Flatten image) or save it with both layers just in case.
I hope that makes sense as I am mashed. And if reads a bit pedantically, same reason. _________________
Yay- thanks, this sounds like what I need. I REALLY appreciate it, Keith!!!
Hey, is "mashed" the way you Brits say "drunk?" Just wondering, not sure, because here we would say "smashed" LOL. _________________ Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi
Blue,
Another option is what Elements calls "Photo Merge", if you want the result to look like one image. Other software programs may call it photo "stitching". This is placing one image adjacent to another and aligning the two so they look like one image (frequently used for creating panoramic images).
I'm guessing from your posts that perhaps this isn't the technique you're looking for, but I'm not sure. _________________ see my photography at john.seelbinder.org
Last edited by Evolution104 on Sun Aug 26, 2007 1:23 am; edited 1 time in total
Ok- , I'll check that out, too, thanks!!!! (I really hate computers, ugh- why does something this simple have to be so difficult??) Thanks you guys, I will let you know if one of these works (or be back to complain bitterly if they don't )LOL _________________ Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi
Yay- thanks, this sounds like what I need. I REALLY appreciate it, Keith!!!
Hey, is "mashed" the way you Brits say "drunk?" Just wondering, not sure, because here we would say "smashed" LOL.
Delighted to hear it and you are most welcome.
Uh, no, mashed is not the same as smashed. Aging hippy and all that. _________________
Uh, no, mashed is not the same as smashed. Aging hippy and all that.
A- hah. Ok, got it. Little slow on the uptake, I am. _________________ Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi
Just wanted to say thanks to both of you for your help! I tried Keith's instructions first, and they worked beautifully (I appreciate the very detailed step-by-step you laid out- I printed it out and just followed exactly what you wrote.) Exactly what I needed. Thank you both SO MUCH!!! _________________ Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi
The method I mentioned is for making two images taken side-by-side look like a single image, rather than placing two images side-by-side, which sounds like what you were looking for.
Keith is the man _________________ see my photography at john.seelbinder.org
I'm delighted it worked Blue. It's always hard to know how much information to include, like the Click > Edit > Copy stuff, but equally I know how frustrating it is if those steps aren't included and someone tells me to Copy and Paste something and I don't know how.
Having spent my life in teaching/people work I know one of the strengths I can bring to the forum is detailed but sensible walk throughs, whilst others bring me detailed photographic knowledge that I don't have, we share and we grow and I derive immense pleasure from that.
There is also a lifetimes personal philosophy tied up in this, the model the world we live in is based on competition, from way back being a Hippy I refused that model, and so chose people work, we have the power to make a choice and I mean with every bone in my body that "Cooperation is the experience of ecstasy." Working together people achieve great things even, and especially, in very small ways. Er, end of...
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Actually, I don't want them on top of each other, I want them side by side, so each page can be read... but right now each page is it's own JPEG file, and I have to submit them together as a single file. It seems like it would be a simple thing to do, I just don't know how to go about it. 
Sorry for not being very clear in my first post.
, I'll check that out, too, thanks!!!! 
(I really hate computers, ugh- why does something this simple have to be so difficult??) Thanks you guys, I will let you know if one of these works (or be back to complain bitterly if they don't 
)LOL
Little slow on the uptake, I am. 
