Adobe Photoshop CS3 Image Merge
The following tutorial will show how to use Adobe Photoshop CS3 Image Merge feature. This feature has a couple things it can possibly do. I will be demonstrating just one of them because it is less customizable. I find this feature great for when you want to make one picture look like it is a ghostly feature in the background of another image. Also you can just make an image attach to another image as if it was a real photo stack upon on another. You can truly do some cool things with this feature as you will see.
1. Open up Adobe Photoshop CS3
2. Click the following sequence, which begins at the top of the program. (File/Automate/Merge to HDR).
3. You will now see a place to select the photos you would like to merge. You can submit as many as you want.
4. Once you have finished adding your images press “OK” and another window will open. Sometimes images have some weird nuances. For mine I had to change the Exposure Time to a different selection from the default to get it to work in the end. To make the “OK” button show you have to look at each image by select the “>” button.
5. Once you select “OK” you will get an Merge to HDR window. The part you want to mess with is the graph you see at the right. At some point in the integration of the graph you see a good infraction point where both the images will see intertwined.
6. Once you have done this correctly press “OK”. You will see what you see below.
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