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Aligning one image with another - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Aligning one image with another
I'm working inside The wide road.jpg found inside the 08 selections folder, and I have drawn a graduated selection using a combination of the Rectangular Marquee tool along with a generous application of the Feather Command. In this exercise, we're going to drag and drop this selection into the Moon on sky.psd composition. And here's how we are going to do it. We could of course, go up to the Arrange Documents icon and choose for example, the horizontal two-up display, like so, so that we can see both images at the same time. Of course being the lucky guy I am, once again I have gone ahead and combined the two images I want to be seeing at the same time into the same window. So I'm going to grab The wide road.jpg and move it to the bottom window, like so. And then, I go ahead and drag and drop my selection into the composition, and it lands exactly wherever I drop it. Notice that. I'll go ahead and zoom out so you can see what I mean, which is by no means centered in this particular…
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Photoshop versus the real world1m 21s
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Meet the selection tools10m 26s
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Marking the center of an image4m 9s
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Drawing a geometric selection outline4m 45s
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Blurring a selection outline with Feather6m 8s
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Copy and paste versus drag and drop5m 31s
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Creating a graduated selection4m 29s
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Aligning one image with another4m 45s
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Accessing the Move tool on the fly3m 34s
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Invert and Match Colors5m 4s
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Matching colors selectively3m 52s
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Feathering and filling a selection5m 14s
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Dressing up a composition with effects5m 34s
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The incredible image rotation trick2m 18s
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The Magic Wand tool4m 12s
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Tolerance and other options7m 7s
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Grow, Similar, and Inverse5m 39s
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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso7m 27s
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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask8m 52s
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Saving and loading selections6m 14s
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Placing an image with a layer mask3m 22s
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Eliminating edge fringing7m 43s
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