making 2 photos one 1

[Westerner]

I have just bought Photoshop Elements. I have 2 different photos that I want to make into one photo. I want to take the entire photo #1 and put it alongside photo #2 as one whole photo; like a comparison thing. I really can't figure out how to do this!!

 

[dimoj]

Use the crop tool to increase the canvas size of one of your photos. Select the other photo by making that image the active window then go to Select>All. Then go to Edit>Copy.

Make the destination image the active one by clicking on it then go to Edit>Paste and the photo will be copied onto a new layer in that window.

 

[Westerner]

Thanks, that worked, sort of. I found that I had to increase image one's size exactly the size of image 2 which is very tricky! Seems like a clumsy way to have to do it.

 

[dagger2002]

The easier way to do this with photoshop is to change the canvas size. image/canvas size. By using this method you can control where the pixels are added fro by clickig the arrows.