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.