Combining Photos

May 13, 2006 3:27 PM

How do I merge/combine 4 separate photographs onto a single sheet? This is for an insurance record. Four separate photos might be more easily lost in my insurance agents' filing cabinet. i need to keep the four separate images intact and unmodified. I have Photoshop Elements 3, Photoshop 7 (which I have never used) and Corel Photopaint 8 and could not find (or did not know how to properly phrase a question to find) a description of how to do this I any of these programs. Can this be done in any of these programs? I would prefer to use PE3.
posted by Raybun to computers & internet (9 comments total)

You should be able to do this in any of those programs, including Elements. Create a new document and set its size to whatever size your final single sheet will be. Open each photo, do a Select All, Copy, switch into your new document, and Paste. Use the move tool to move the four photos around and resize them as needed.

Photoshop (I know the pro version does, probably Elements as well) has a Contact Sheet feature that you can use to do this, though it might be more work then just doing it manually for four photos. If you want to use it, look under Automation in the File menu IIRC.
posted by zachlipton at 3:34 PM on May 13, 2006

I believe this is exceptionally easy with the free program Picasa.
posted by jay.jansheski at 3:43 PM on May 13, 2006

You probably don't need to do anything to manually get them onto a single page together -- in Elements, just select the 4 pictures you want and print them as a contact sheet / index sheet (directions here)
posted by misterbrandt at 3:46 PM on May 13, 2006

Why not create the page you want using HTML, and then print it using your favorite browser?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 3:57 PM on May 13, 2006

You can even do this in Microsoft Word, adding the images and resizing them to fit within the margins.
posted by luftmensch at 4:05 PM on May 13, 2006

Many people have asked the same question. Here are some of the answers.

This one sounds good: "Photoshop 7 does allow for one to print multiple photos in different sizes on one 8x10 sheet of photo paper---go into file/automate/picture package and then choose whatever combo of sizes of pix you want and click on each shape to choose different images for each shape."
posted by iconomy at 4:07 PM on May 13, 2006

Creating a picture package in Photoshop Elements 3.
posted by iconomy at 4:09 PM on May 13, 2006

Many thanks to everyone. All answers are good. I tried zachlipton's suggestion and it worked. I also found that the reason that I could not do the same thing before in PE3 was because I was opening the PE3 catalog BEFORE opening PE3 itself. When this is done PE3 cannot communicate with the catalog and the process described by zachlipton cannot work.
Thanks again to everybody.
posted by Raybun at 4:53 PM on May 13, 2006

You can also just do this with XP's default photo viewer. Just select the photos you want, right click and choose print, and follow the wizard.
posted by Orange Goblin at 5:52 PM on May 13, 2006