Frieds tutorials-merging

My 15th tutorialette! I hope you like them as much as I like making them! And a new question I heard today: 'I have two images, and I like to put them together to make them into one'. Again: it's not hard to do (there are various ways to accomplish this), but it requires quite some accuracy and carefulness, and probably using Ctr-Z a lot before you're satisfied with the result!
	Open the images you want to merge. On both do Shift-D to copy them, and close the original (we don't want to spoil them! ). This was a scan in two parts from a pastel drawing of my house. This was the right side.
	This is part that should be added at the right.. I had made the proportions equalize alreade by resizing the larger one, CTR-Z'ing, resizing, CTR-Z'ing, etc. until they were just right. Their sizes were made equal, too: they were both exactly 138 x 177 pixels.
	Now what I do, is resize one of the images, so the second image will fit beside it. That means that in this case I make the left image 276 x 177 pixels.
	The size of the image you're working on will always show in the right-hand bottom of your PSP window!
	Now the 'left' image (in this case named 'image 5' since it's a duplicate from another one) will look like this. Now add an extra layer to this image (if you mess up you'll just have to throw away that layer, and start over with a new one)
	Now activate the other image by clicking anywhere in it, and go to menu > selections > select all.
	The marquee (the marching ants) will now show all around the image. Now choose menu > edit > copy (better not cut, just in case you need to redo this!) Next activate the other image (image 5) by clicking it with the mouse.
	Go to Menu > edit > Paste > As New Selection
	And you will see the selection appear in the center of the larger image. It's stuck to your mouse pointer.
	All you have to do now is, very meticulously, push the selection around until it's at the very right place, and all the lines line up. Now click the right mouse button to deselect or go to Menu > Selections > Select None

	And here the original pastel of my house, as if it had been scanned that way! Now you can go to Menu > Layers > Merge > Merge All to flatten the image (if you want) and save it for use on your web-site.
This technique is really very simple, but you'll have to work very carefully as far as lining up the images is concerned. If necessary you can zoom in to work with even greater precision. And don't forget that everything and anything you do, can be undone do give it another try!

That's all, folks!

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