You do not have to position images beside each other to move them from one image file to another. Like using the Copy and Paste command, you can use the Move tool to copy images from one document to another.Ĭlick and drag the cow image into the picture of the barn.

The cow picture is placed into the barn picture on a new layer. When your cursor is positioned over the picture of the barn, release your mouse.

Click and drag the cow image over to the barn image. The Tile features allow you to see all the open images.Ģ Select the Move tool ( ), and then select the picture of the cow, which is the ps0403.psd image. The Arrange features allow you to determine how windows are displayed on your monitor.

In this section, you’ll drag and drop one image into another.ġ Choose Window > Arrange > 2-up Vertical to view both the cow (ps0403.psd) and the barn (ps0401.psd) pictures at the same time. Both these items will be addressed in future steps in this lesson.ĥ Select the tab of the rooster image, ps0402.psd, and choose File > Close to close the file. The rooster appears on top of the barn, and the background surrounding the rooster blocks part of the image. Choose Edit > Paste to place the image of the rooster into the picture of the barn. The image is now in your computer’s clipboard, ready to be pasted into another document.Ĥ Select the tab of the barn picture, ps0401.psd, to make it the active document. You can learn more about selections in Lesson 5, “Making the Best Selections.”ģ Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected image area. This creates a selection marquee around the outside edge of the image. You can have many documents open at once in Photoshop, but only one of them is active at any given time.Ģ Choose Select > All to select the entire image.

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