Adobe Photoshop: merging images

[amidaiwish]

anyone out there know how to merge two jpeg images into just one image to load onto a website? I would have thought it was a simple copy and paste so they are next to each other but can't seem to do it

Are you really meging them? (meaning one in top of each other becoming a single one) or you only want to join them together side by side?

thanks, yes i mean join them together side by side...

If you are joining them together side by side and they are the same height:

1. Find width (in pixels) of left hand image
2. Find width (in pixels) of right hand image
3. Create new document "Final image" of appropriate height with width (width of LH image + width of RH image)
4. From Layers palette, drag LH image onto Final image
5. From Layers palette, drag RH image onto Final image
6. Either line them up manually or

i. Activate Background layer of Final image in Layers palette ii. Link to LH image layer iii. Layers -> Align Linked -> Left Hand edges iv. Unlink v. Activate Background layer of Final image in Layers palette vi. Link to RH image layer vii. Layers -> Align Linked -> Right Hand edges viii. Unlink

1. Flatten image

There are other ways but that's the easiest to explain if not the quickest to do.

thank you so much.
wasn't getting any joy with the help function
i will give it a go... will probably be back with qu's!

first question....

the two images are massively different in size (584 pixels width and 2422 pixels width) and i want them to look the same size when lined up next to each other.. how?

Do you want them the same width as each other, or the same height as each other, or the same width and height as each other?

If you have one small image and you want the big image to be exactly the same (width and height) then as they may not be the same ratio as each other the best bet is to

1. Take the big image, duplicate it and close the original file (so you don't accidentally overwrite the original!)

1. Select the Crop tool in the tools palette.

1. Say the small image is 584 pixels wide and 390 pixels high -- in the bar at the top of the screen with the Crop options enter "584 px" in the Width box and "390 px" in the Height box (without the inverted commas).

1. Given what you are going to end up doing with it it doesn't really matter what you put in the ppi box, but put 72 in there for now.

1. Draw out a cropping rectangle on the large image, covering the bits of image you want to include.

1. Hit Enter

You should now have a version of your big image that's exactly the same sizw as your small image. You can then combine them as per my previous post.

thanks lemonaid, i will give it a go tomorrow..