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Silverleopard
Silverleopard
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June 3, 2017
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Combining multiple images into one document

  • June 3, 2017
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Hello everyone, I'm trying to do a photoshop tutorial on Lynda, but I cannot find a forum for Lynda so I thought I'd ask the question here.  In the tutorial on Photoshop CC 2017, the instructor loads 3 images from bridge into photoshop.  There are three tabs at the top, one for each image.  What he does is he clicks on the second image, then on the move tool, then he clicks on the layer thumbnail for that image 2, and drags it to the top 3 tabs.  He overs on top of the tab for image 1 to make that image be the one selected (Image 2 is the one that we are trying to move into image 1).  Well, when he does it, holding the layer thumbnail of image 2 over the tab of image one, then the image in the screen changes so that image 1 is selected, and he is able to drop image 2 into this photograph creating 2 layers for this one file.    When I do it, nothing happens.  I cannot figure it out.  I have looked at my screen and his screen and the settings on the screen are the same.  All I can figure is that there is some setting somewhere in photoshop that allows this feature, but I cannot find it.  Can anyone tell me how to enable a tab to be selected by hovering over it? 

Thank you! 

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    macpawel
    macpawel
    Participating Frequently
    June 3, 2017

    Try to drag image or image thumb from layer palette and drag i on destination tab. Then (don't release your mouse button) wait until your destination document appear and then drag your image (or thumb) onto destination image and finally release your mouse button

    Pawel

    Silverleopard
    SilverleopardAuthor
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    June 3, 2017

    Thank you, but the problem is that the destination tab never highlights.  It just stays dark and the image shown on the workspace just remains the one I'm moving.  I can hover over the destination image tab for a long time and it never changes.  If I release it just does nothing.  If I release it into the image that is showing, I get an error message that its the same image.   My problem is I can't make the destination tab highlight by dragging to it and hovering over it.  I think there must be a setting somewhere to allow it to be highlighted by dragging and hovering on top of it.  I'm not sure.  Otherwise, I'm doing exactly the same thing as the person on the tutorial and his highlights and the image selected changes to the destination image when he hovers. 

    A
    Anonymous
    June 3, 2017

    It should do.

    But to help you - and this special arrangement of the images doesn't matter:

    Go to menu Window > Arrange and choose another arrangemant of the images. Then try again.

    And tell us if it works.

    Fenja

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