Implementing the picture layout is simple and doesn’t take a lot of time.  You can put images together or change the way the picture looks.  Make sure that your layout is already in place if you are putting pictures together.  Here are some steps to take in order to make your picture layout look professional.

Open two photo files in Photoshop CS4.

Select the Marquee tool and choose the part of the picture that will be copied.  Using the paste function, place the first picture on top of the other one.

Select the Edit function in the Copy menu.  You will copy the area.

Use the Paste function and choose the second photo.  Part of the first photo should be placed on top of the second photo.

Using the Magnifier, zoom into the portion of the photo that is pasted.

In order to move the images around, use the hand tool.  During this time, your file is still in the zoom phase.

If you need to make adjustments to the photo that is pasted, select the move tool.

Cropping Pictures In Photoshop CS4

When you are cropping part of a picture, that usually signals that you don’t want that part to be there.  It may be a portion of something that should not be there, or something that you just don’t care to see.  So, you will attempt to crop or cut it off.  When you do that, what is left is what you want on the picture.  Here are some steps you can take to get rid of portions that you don’t want.

After you’ve opened the graphics software, find the image that you want to change.

Choose the crop tool which is located in the Photoshop CS4 toolbox.

Go to one of the corners to where you want to crop off the image and start there.

Drag the image down until you have what you want to crop.

Using the resizing handles, adjust the area that is to be cropped.  You can also do this by clicking and dragging the selection.  Whatever is outside of the square will be cropped, while the remaining part of the image will stay.

Select the green check mark that is located at the top of the screen in the toolbar.  This will signal that you are giving permission for that area to be cropped.  After the action has taken place, you will only have the portion that you opted to keep.

Using Picture Effects In Photoshop CS4

If you want to make your pictures come alive, using picture effects in Photoshop CS4 can help you do just that.  Using this component of Photoshop CS4 is simple to do.  The only thing that is required of you other than following the directions is that you should have some type of imagination.

Photoshop CS4 has plenty of picture effects that you can use and these instructions will show you how to apply a double image and make that image into something that you may never have thought of.

Open a picture from Photoshop CS4.  You will see a layer called “Background”.  Using the right-click button on your mouse, open it and choose the command “Duplicate Layer”.

The actual duplicate layer should be named something else.  After you have saved the new file, you should see two layers in your layer palette.  If for some reason the layers palette does not open in Photoshop CS4, select “Window” and choose “Layers”.  Or you can try using the F7 key at the top of your keyboard.

Using the Move tool, you will find a spot and click on the newly created duplicate layer.  Drag the picture in whatever direction you choose.  Keep dragging it and under the duplicate one, you will see the first picture.

Select the “Free Transform” command from the Edit menu.  If you need to change the second picture into different shapes and sizes, this is what you would use to do that.  Doing that would also require using the Move tool in order to get the picture to where you want it.