- [Narrator] Combining images is another common reason
to use Photoshop with Lightroom
because it's something that you can only do in Photoshop.
Here I have two photos in my light room catalog.
I'm going to select them both
by clicking in the frames holding the shift key.
And then I'll go up to the photo menu
and I'll choose edit in.
And I'm going to choose open as layers in Photoshop.
So that Photoshop will open with
both these photos in one file,
each on a separate layer.
And that does some of the work for me.
Here in Photoshop I'm going to rearrange things
by going to the layers panel
and dragging the letter layer rearrange the children layer.
Now I want to scale down and rotate
and position the photo of the children.
So I'll select the children layer in the layers panel.
And I'll press Command T on the Mac,
that's Control T on Windows.
If you can't see the corner anchor points
you can press Command zero on Mac,
Control zero on Windows.
And that will shrink the entire image,
so you can get to the anchor points.
And then I'm going to grab one of those anchor points
and drag in.
And depending on which version of Photoshop you have,
you may need to hold the shift key as you do this
to constrain proportions.
I'll click inside of that bounding box
and I'll move this on top of the book.
And then I'll move outside of any of the anchor points
and I'm going to click and drag to rotate the image.
And I'll move that into place here.
I'll press Enter or Return on the keyboard.
Now I want to change the blend mode of the children layer
so I can see the texture on the paper below.
So I'll go to the layers panel.
And I'll click on the blend mode menu.
Blend modes are a great way to combine images.
As you hover over blend modes here
you'll see different results in the image.
I'm going to choose multiply.
And now that I see what's underneath the photo,
I can use the move tool to better position it
where it needs to be.
There are some extra bits hanging over the edges
and to deal with those,
I'm just going to get the eraser tool
or you could use a layer mask,
for nondestructive editing.
I'm going to click and then click again
to erase in straight line.
And then I'll just clean up some of the edges the same way.
And of course you could spend more time and do this
a little more carefully than I'm doing right now.
When you're satisfied,
think about how you might blend this image in
with the surrounding area.
I think it's a little dark and so
I'd like to crush the blacks a little bit
and to do that, I'm going to add a curves adjustment layer.
So I'll go down to the bottom of the layers panel
and I'll click the create new adjust layer icon
and I'm going to choose curves.
In the curves dialog box.
I'm just going to go to the part of the curve
that represents the blacks, which is way over on the left
and I'm going to drag that up
and you can see that that is kind of making
the entire image look more faded or less contrasting.
I'd like to limit that to just the photo of the children.
So I'm going to go to the layers panel,
hover over the border between
the curves adjustment layer which is here
and the children layer which is here.
I'll hold the option key, that's the Alt key on Mac.
And when my cursor changes to this bent arrow,
I'll click and that will clip the curves adjustment layer
so it's affecting only the children.
If I turn it on and off, you can see that better.
And then I'll close the properties.
Now that the images are successfully combined,
let's save the resulting composite.
I'll go to the file menu and I'll choose save.
I'll close this image in Photoshop.
And I'll return to light room classic
where you can see we now have not only
the components of our composite
but we have the entire composite too.
That's just one example of the many ways
that you can combine images yourself
starting with photos in light room classic
and handing them off to Photoshop to combine.