How do you open 2 pictures at the same time

[Cabbage111]

Hello Everyone,

I have just brought the above and am a complete newby to Photoshop.

I can't believe that this simple task is proving to be impossible for me so please try not to laugh.

All I want to do is open 2 pictures up in Photoshop so they are side by side ready for me to blend them.  Blending them isn't a problem as I have learned this.  My problem is when I select 2 of my pictures it loads just one of them into Photoshop which is then the background layer.  I can't move it or anything.  When I close this picture the second one then appears as the background image like the first one.  When I have seen other people open 2 pictures, they simply open them both like I have done and they come in side by side.

Why won't mine do this?  Is there a button I'm missing before I open them?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[Semaphoric]

In the Photoshop menu, Window > Arrange > Tile. Note that the pictures will still be in two individual windows. If you want them side by side in the same doc, you need to expand the canvas of one, and drag the other one into it.

[Guest]

If you want floating windows instead of the document tabs, you can disable that in preferences. Below I have linked the tech doc on options for floating windows and disabling tabs in CS4 and CS5.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405298.html

[Cabbage111]

That's great, thank you!!!  It's only taken me ALL day to find this out.  Quite simple as I expected.

Thank you very much both of you.

[Noel Carboni]

Assuming you're using Tabbed view (the default), and you have several images open in Photoshop, they show up as tabs.

To get them side by side to work on them, you can click the Arrange Documents button and choose the side by side arrangement.

-Noel