Photoshop help!!! trying to make sequence pictures

C.Wood

C.Wood

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i have used the search bar

i searched cults and found nothing

i have adobe photoshop CS3

i got the whole suite(not illegaly)

so i open one of the photos and then to open the other ones a create a new layer

i go to open and open the next photo

it replaces the background photo

what am i doing wrong??

i know that you have to auto aline the layers but how do you go about that

and i know after you erase where the other photos are of the people to then create the sequence

help NS???

thanks
 
When you go to file open, it makes a new document, it wont add the picture to your current document. Think of it like MS word. If you open two documents, you now have two windows. If you want them in the same document, you have to copy from one and paste in the other.

Your looking for file/place. This will put the picture in the same document, and you will have to rasterize each layer to make them directly editable.

The easiest way to do it is file/automate/photomerge. this will try to do it for you, and than you can edit the individual layers by yourself. Good luck
 
thanks for the help im a fair newb whats rasterize??

and when im erasing one layer to expose the layer underneath what layer do i select at the side?

thanks
 
When you use the Place comand, you will notice that you cant edit the picture, like cant paint on it or erase it... Its confusing why PS does this but all you need to do is go to Layer/Smart Layer/Rasterize. This will turn it into a normal layer you can edit.

To delete a layer, find it in the layer panel and right click it, delete

Also if you do sequences manualy, i would use masks instead of erasing. To mask a layer, select the layer and click the thing at the bottom of the layer pannel thats a circle inside a square. Now, instead of erasing parts of each layer and loosing them forever, theres sorta a sublayer. Whereever you paint black on the mask layer, its like your erasing and where you paint white its like un-erasing.
 
heres what i do if i want to make a quick sequence. (all of your shots should be from the same spot and have the same exposure).
-open all of the photos you want to be in the sequence in photoshop.-choose the photo you want to have as the background.-use the lasso tool to cut around the person in the other photos one by one. -After cutting one of them out with the lasso tool, then right click on it and hit "copy layer" or "via copy" or something.-drag the cut-out person into the background layer.-do this for all of the different photos that you want to be in the sequence and drag them in as well.
 
personally if i have the camera on a tripod or perfectly still, i prefer the layer mask technique. there's a youtube video about it with kittens haha. worth a watch.
 
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