525 Combining Multiple Group Photos

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland,…and welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week, I'm gonna show you how to combine…multiple group photos to great effect,…inside Photoshop.…So by way of an example here,…I've got this photograph of my entire nuclear family,…so there's me, there's my partner Colleen,…and these are our various kids in between.…Now notice that we're being captured from up above,…which would have required either another person…and there was nobody around, quite frankly,…but even if there were, I don't necessarily trust…other people's compositional skills.…

And otherwise I would need a tripod so…I could set the timer but we didn't have a tripod either.…So here's what we did.…I went ahead and set up the shot in the first place,…leaving room for myself, which of course,…I didn't necessarily do very well.…My compositional skills apparently need work as well,…because I can barely fit in this shot.…And then I traded the camera with Colleen,…and she took a photo.…Now obviously we took many photos apiece…to make sure we got things more or less right,…