How to open multiple images so can combine and not just one single image at a time. Help please

[NTC Ann]

I just upgraded to the subscription Photoshop. 2023?

I can't figure out how to open multiple images so I can combine them into one. It's only opening one image at a time.

Would apprec.  help. Thank you.

[jane-e]

@NTC Ann 

Here is one way. In Photoshop:

• Choose File > Open
• Multiple select the images. (Use Shift if they are contiguous or Command if they are non-contiguous)
• Click Open in the dialog

To combine the images into one:

• Go to Window menu > Arrange > Tile (to see all images)
• Select the Move tool and drag an image from one document to another to create a new layer. Repeat.
  Use the Shift key before releasing the mouse to center the image

To composite:

• Select the part you want to see on one layer, then click the Mask button at the bottom of the panel to hide what you don't want to see. Repeat.

You didn't tell us how well you know Photoshop, so these instructions are brief, plus there are other ways. Please post again if you need clarification. 

Jane

[NTC Ann]

I asked how to open more than one image so I can work on and combine - instead of just 1 image opening at a time. Someone sent something back don't understand about changing notifications and subscriptions but that doesn't answer my ?ing subscr

[NTC Ann]

Someone supposdely answered my ? but all I find is the message  sent = ??????
Photoshop 2023 subscripion for my Mac Laptop

I asked how to open more than one image so I can work on and combine - instead of just 1 image opening at a time

[kglad]

you're posting in a forum devoted to questions/issues about the adobe forums.  because you have a photoshop issue, you should post inthe photoshop forum which is where your posts have been moved.

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post if it helps you get responses.

<"moved from using the community">

[NTC Ann]

I don't understand this. I had asked  how to open more than just one image so I can work on them and combine them.Mac OS Ventura 13.5. New Photoshop 2023 subscription.

This came back but I don't understand. Don't know where to find the notification they said on computer.

1. Log on to Adobe Support Community.
2. Click My Profile.
3. Click the Subscriptions and notifications tab.
4. Change your settings and click Save Changes.

[BetterBatter]

You can do what you like in Adobe Lightroom. It's called batch editing. That is the program that will work best. I do this when i have to edit dozens photos at one time! https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/batch-edit.html

[BetterBatter]

And here's how to Batch Editing it in Adobe Photshop: https://www.adobe.com/ph_en/creativecloud/design/discover/batch-edit.html

[NTC Ann]

I am still using my iMac and Adobe CS6 for my art work. Internet was failing so I got a new Macbook Pro. Was sending images over to my iMac to size and do what I want and the back to the Macbook. Was kind of a pain so decided to get subscription to Photoshop 2023 so could resize and do things on this computer instead of going back and forth.... 

Example

I am not having any luck. Have used Adobe CS6 a lot !!! - for  years (which only works up to a certain OS and not later)!!! So this subscription is new

1. Not having any luck finding open multiple.

2. I used to click on say 4 images and each would open and I could move 3 out of the way so I could enlarge the canvas of starting image. Then select one of the other images and place it into my open area I am working on on my base image. 

3. I don't see arrange or tile. Don't understand why I want to create a new later. Just want all 4 images there and open so I can see all - not just one image - so I can drage the one I want onto my base layer. 

4. I don't want to hide any layer. Just want to drag the part I want to paste on to my base layer to size and position.

5. Would  like to see all my images I want to work with open at one time.

I am really not understanding this. 

[jane-e]

Hi @NTC Ann 

1. Open Multiple. This is part of macOS and nothing has changed since CS6.

On your Mac, do any of the following:

• Select an item: Click the item. For example, in the Finder, click the icon for a document, folder, app, or disk.

• Select multiple items: Press and hold the Command key, then click the items (they don’t need to be next to each other).

• Select multiple items that are adjacent: Click the first item, then press the Shift key and click the last item. All items in between are included in the selection.

Details here on the Apple website:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/select-items-mchlp1378/mac

2. Photoshop switched to a tabbed interface in CS3, but has always given us the option to return to the old way. Most browsers use a tabbed interface as well.

If you want to turn off tabs and have floating Windows instead, go to Photoshop > Preferences > Workspace > Disable Open Documents as Tabs > Restart Photoshop

3. Tile All Vertically is in Window menu > Arrange. It's possible the documents need to be tabbed instead of floating to use it.

4. If you want to select and just move your selection and leave the part you  don't want behind in the other image, you can do that. No one will stop you. Non-destructive editing means make the selection, then mask (hide) what you don't want. You can then fine-tune the mask if you made a mistake. Go ahead and do this step as you have been if your prefer and are used to it.

5. You can see all the image three ways:

• you keep them in tabs and choose Arrange All
• disable tabs so they are floating
• keep them in tabs and choos Window menu  > Arrange > Float All each time you want the window to float

If an image covers another image, you can move it or you can choose any open file from the bottom of the Window menu.

Does this answer your questions? Please ask again if you have more!

Jane

[D Fosse]

That should answer it if the OP reads carefully. I suspect this is about tabs vs. floating image windows.

[vansh31854107for3]

I understand that this is old, but from reading the comments and the title, I strongly feel the OP was trying to figure out how to import multiple images onto one canvas or something along those lines. But I have no idea and the suspense is killing me!

[Rob_Cullen]

"import multiple images onto one canvas "

Photoshop MENU:  File > Scripts > Load Files Into Stack

The answer to your question as given by @Stephen Marsh 

(If you are a Lightroom-Classic user:  Select multiple files in Grid view > MENU: Photo > Edit In > Open as Layers in Photoshop.)

[NTC Ann]

I am going to work on what you suggested today.
But I work in floating windows.... don't know how to manage this in tabs.
How do I get to floating windows (if that is the correct name) for each of
my images so I can build multi. into one?
Thanks again.

[jane-e]

How do I get to floating windows (if that is the correct name) for each ofmy images so I can build multi. into one?Thanks again.
By @NTC Ann

Here's a screenshot of what I wrote in my last post (in answer to your Question #2):

Jane

[Stephen Marsh]

There is also the Window > Arrange > Float All in Windows option as well.

Then there is File > Scripts > Load Files Into Stack

[Bojan Živković]

I agree with @Stephen Marsh try with Load Files Into Stack.

[jane-e]

See the post from @Rob_Cullen on February 11 😊