Photoshop is a valuable tool for editing one image, but you can double your creative options when you use the software to merge two images.
Photoshop’s Paste Into command gives you a quick and easy way to combine two images into a masked region. Although I’ll demonstrate the feature in CS4, the Paste Into command has been around for a while, so owners of older versions can play along, too.
Stream the 4.6MB QuickTime tutorial in a separate window by clicking the image below.
This article was last modified on January 5, 2023
This article was first published on August 26, 2009
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