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Well how do we get one image into another image? There are several ways you can do that in Photoshop, and in this lesson I want to show you some of my favorite ways. Notice that I have three images open on my desktop here. One way I can get images into another image is to go to the image that I want to copy the pixel data from. In this case my cows and I'll just choose select all or command + 'A', and from the edit menu I will copy all that to the clipboard. Go to another image and make that my working document and from the edit menu choose paste. And you can see what Photoshop does is it pastes the pixel data on to its own layer. If you have your mover tool available that's this tool right here, we can actually click and drag that pixel data out of the way or reposition it where we want. I'm just going to go ahead and throw that layer in the trash, talk about another way you can take advantage of this. And with my cows the active document, I'm going to activate a mask I have as a selection. So I'm just going to drag this mask thumbnail down to the selection button at the bottom of my channels' palette, and copy and paste this pixel data. So that's edit menu>copy, and I'm going to go to this image and choose edit menu>paste. And notice again Photoshop pastes all new pixel data on it's own layer. Another way we could achieve basically the same results is with a selection active on one document, and making sure you are using the move tool, all I need to do is drag the pixel data out of one document into another document if I can see it in the background. And you can see that it simply copies and pastes that data on to its own layer. And another nice feature of Photoshop is you can of course copy and paste layers without activating any selection. So with my cow layer currently targeted, I'm going to drag this pixel information to my dandelion image. So I'm going to make sure that I can see both of the images on my screen, so that I can drag one layer to another document. I'll just drag it over and it immediately copies and pastes that on its own layer on the target document. And to the same extent I could even drag the layer thumbnail from the layers palette on to another document, and it will do the same thing. So there are many different ways of copying and pasting pixel data from one document to another in Photoshop.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |