Inspiring

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Photographs are not seen in Layers panel.

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July 5, 2020
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Hi to all,

I've been following up tutorials and learning. I wanted to edit my black and white photograph to change background which is sky with sky of my another photograph. Before doing this edit, I opened Adobe's tutorial about Layer Masks and my intention was to do the same in the video tutorial named: Masks Out Part of an Image ("California" sign).

I opened two phototographs but those two photographs are not seen together in layer panel and only one whichever I click on its name.

In the video tutorial, both two photographs are seen together, one of which is the photograph showing California sign and the other is photograph of sky with clouds.

My question : why my layer panel does not show my two photographs together? For this reason I cannot manage my editing.

My gut feeling is that I skip something somewhere which is due to substantial update done in june 2020.

I thank you for your help beforehand and kind regards.

Şevki Ümit Özgen / şevki ümitö48198405

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jane-e

Community Expert

Hi

From your description, you have two files open, each with one image. You'll need to put them into the same file. Here's one method:

Go to Window > Arrange > Tile to see the files side by side
Use the Move tool to drag one image into the other window. Hold down the Shift key before releasing the mouse to center the image
Close the one file
The remaining file should have both images in the Layers panel. Save the file as a .psd.

Jane

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şevki ümitö48198405Author

Inspiring

Dear Jane-e, thank you for reply.

Couple of months ago I inserted an image into another photograph by following Adobe's tutorial video and managed the same. At that time my Photoshop showed both photographs at layer panel as in the tutorial video.

I will try as in your post, but I need to know and request you to clarify whether shall I do the same every time for the same type of editings and/or wilI Photoshop do this and add layers for each photograph Automatically in future when I open files after I do what you mention.

Thanks

Ümit

jane-e

Community Expert

Hi Ümit,

When you have two separate images that you want to composite, they will always need to be in the same document and Photoshop will never do that automatically. There are a number of ways to put them in the same document, and I gave you one.

You might want to watch this tutorial from Adobe Help. It includes the exercise files and a series of short videos so you can do exactly what they are doing. In this tutorial, the instuctor copies the pixels from one image and pastes into the second to create a new layer. That is a second method to put the images into one file.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/compositing.html

Just Shoot Me

Legend

I moved your post over from the poorly named Community Help forum, which is for getting help using this forum system, to a better forum, Ps.

I hope this helps. Best of luck to you.

Ş

şevki ümitö48198405Author

Inspiring

I thank you very much.

Kind regards

Ümit

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