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- Hello friends, my name is Chris Orwig
and I am a Sony Artisan,
a photographer, author, and teacher.
And in this tutorial,
I wanna share with you a really helpful tip
which allows you to select multiple images
inside of Lightroom.
And then, send those over to Photoshop
into a single Photoshop document.
All right, well here we are inside of Lightroom.
And I have two images that I wanna print out side by side.
And I also wanna save it out as a JPEG
so I can post it on social media.
So what you can do inside of Lightroom is click
on one image, then click on another
holding the shift key.
Then, press the end key
which takes you into this survey mode
where you can view multiple images at once.
Well, how in the world could I create a document
where I have these two images side by side
inside of Photoshop?
Well, wha' you do is inside of Lightroom,
you go to photo pull down menu.
After you've selected your images,
you go here, choose edit in,
and then select open as layers in Photoshop.
So again, choose your images, photo, edit in,
open as layers in Photoshop.
What this will do is it will apply
all the settings and adjustments
you've applied in Lightroom
and send these files over to Photoshop
and open them up into a single document.
Now both of these photographs,
they were captured with the Sony a9
and then the 50 f/1.4 lens.
You can see there's this really nice shallow depth of field.
They're actually captured in the same environment
for a project I was working on.
So I want to have these images side by side.
But the trouble is if I use my move tool,
there just isn't enough canvas space.
Right?
How do we extend our canvas, so I can see the other image?
Well, what you do is you move an image,
go to image and then select reveal all.
That will then extend the canvas so everything is visible.
If I move this down and over
and then choose image reveal all,
it will then extend it horizontally and vertically
so that the image is now revealed.
Another way that you can do the same thing is
with your crop tool.
Just click on the crop tool
and then click and drag it out past the edge of the image.
And this will give you a larger canvas size.
Double click inside of that crop area
to apply that or press enter or return.
All right.
Well, now that we have these two images
up inside of this document, let's arrange them.
I'll use the move tool and I'll click
and drag this one around, say to right here.
And next, I need to get rid of all of this excess area
that I created for myself.
How do we do that?
We'll just go to image again and here choose trim.
It's right above reveal all there.
And when we click on trim, it opens a dialogue
and we can trim away transparent pixels
which is all of this stuff here.
Top, bottom, left, right, definitely.
Click OK.
And that will then trim it down to a nice size.
Well now that we have this layout
which is really nice and I like the way
the images work together.
What we need to do is fill in this gap right here.
If we decide we want a gap which I do.
And one great way to do that is with an adjustment layer.
If you click on the adjustment layer icon
and then choose solid color.
This allows you to create a layer with a solid color.
If it's above everything, it will cover it.
But if we drag it down to the bottom,
we can see it's now only showing through
where that little gap was.
To change the color of that gap,
just double click this color chip.
If we want something maybe from the image like that,
we could click around in the photograph
to find something that might be kind of fun,
or we could just use black or white or something
along those lines as well.
Here, I'll go ahead and click OK
in order to apply them.
All right, well there you have it.
A quick technique for selecting
multiple images in Lightroom,
sending them over to Photoshop,
and then creating a layout.
Now in this case, I created a really simple layout
with two photographs,
but you could of course have more images.
You could also use this technique
when you need to combine multiple exposures together
or maybe create a composite
or other things as well.
All right, well thanks so much
for joining me in this tutorial.
I hope you picked up a few helpful tips and tricks.
Have a wonderful rest of your day.
Bye for now.
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