Photoshop will pop up the Apply Image dialog box. Now that we've safely duplicated our Background layer, go up to the Image menu at the top of the screen and choose Apply Image. Press "Ctrl+J" (Win) / "Command+J" (Mac) to duplicate the Background layer. Let's get started!ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Step 1: Open The Images You Want To Useīefore we can blend our images together, we first need to have them open in Photoshop, so go ahead and open the images you want to use. This tutorial is from our Photo Effects series. Make sure you check the size of each image in the Image Size dialog box by selecting each one separately, then going up to the Image menu at the top of the screen and choosing Image Size. You'll know rather quickly if they're the same size or not because if they're not, the Apply Image command won't even recognize them. If you're working with photos directly from your digital camera and you haven't cropped or resized them, you should be good to go, but it's very important that all the images you want to use are the same size before you begin. If you're working with high resolution images, your pixel dimensions will be much higher but both images will still need to have the exact same dimensions. By that, I mean that if one image is 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels high, the second image also has to be 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels high. Apply Image will only work with images that have the exact same pixel dimensions.
Before we begin though, there's one very important thing you need to know. First, we need to learn how Apply Image works. Okay, we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Try leaving one image in RGB mode and converting the other image to a different color mode, like CMYK or Lab, then blending the channels together to see what you get! Or try a different blend mode for a completely different effect!
We're going to be blending two images together in this tutorial, but you can use it to blend as many images together as you like, using different channels and blend modes for each one! You can even blend channels from different color modes together. We're going to look at the basics here of how Apply Image works, but it's important to keep in mind that this is only scratching the surface of what you can do with this amazing tool. This not only gives us much more control over how the images are blended, but also opens up far more creative possibilities and gives us better overall results. It's similar to using layer blend modes to blend layers together in the Layers palette, with the added ability to blend individual channels together as well. And that's unfortunate, since as we'll see in this tutorial, not only is the Apply Image command one of the most powerful and flexible photo blending tools in all of Photoshop, it also happens to be very easy to use and a whole lot of fun!īasically, Apply Image allows us to blend, or "apply", a layer and channel from one image with a layer and channel of another image. Many people don't know it's there, or if they happened to stumble across it one day while browsing through Photoshop's Menu Bar, took one look at it, said "I don't get it" and moved on. The Apply Image command is one of those features in Photoshop that, for one reason or another, doesn't get used very often, even by people who have been using Photoshop for years. In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how easy it is to blend photos together using Photoshop's Apply Image command to give us all kinds of different results and effects.
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