How To Moee Image Files From One Photoshop To Another

This tutorial shows you how to move an image or a layer from i Photoshop document to some other. You'll learn how to copy and paste an paradigm between documents, how to duplicate a layer, and three means to drag and drop images betwixt documents.

When it comes to blending and compositing images, Adobe Photoshop is the undisputed champ. In fact, Photoshop gives u.s.a. and so many interesting and powerful ways to combine images that our creativity is express only past our skills and imagination. But earlier nosotros tin start combining images, nosotros offset need to know how to get multiple images into the same document. If you're new to Photoshop, blending even ii photos together can seem similar an impossible chore. That's because Photoshop opens each epitome in its own separate certificate. To blend or composite the images, they demand to be in the aforementioned document.

In a previous tutorial, we learned all nearly tabbed and floating document windows in Photoshop. Nosotros also learned how to view and arrange multiple open images on the screen using Photoshop'due south multi-document layouts. In this tutorial, nosotros'll take what nosotros've learned and explore five different ways to easily move images between documents.

What You'll Learn

We'll start with your basic copy and paste method. And so, nosotros'll learn how to duplicate a layer from 1 certificate into another. Finally, we'll look at three ways to drag and drop an image between documents. Nosotros'll larn how to elevate and drib images betwixt tabbed documents, between documents in a multi-document layout, and between two floating document windows. Once you've seen how they all work, you can selection the method you lot like the best! I'll be using Photoshop CC but this tutorial is fully compatible with Photoshop CS6.

This is lesson 8 of 10 in our Learning the Photoshop Interface serial.

Allow's get started!

Opening The Images Into Photoshop

To follow forth, y'all'll need two images. Here, I've used Adobe Bridge to navigate to the folder containing the photos I'll be using. To open them into Photoshop, I'll click on the beginning prototype on the left to select it. So, to select the 2nd prototype as well, I'll printing and agree my Shift key and click on the second prototype. With both photos selected, I'll double-click on either image to open them into Photoshop:

Selecting and opening ii images into Photoshop from Adobe Bridge..

Past default, Photoshop opens the images as tabbed documents, with only ane certificate visible at a fourth dimension. Here's my beginning paradigm (portrait photo from Adobe Stock):

The first of two photos open in Photoshop. Photo credit: Adobe Stock.

To switch between open images, we click on the tabs along the top of the document windows. I'll switch to my second prototype by clicking its tab:

Clicking the certificate tab to view the second open image.

And at present we run across my second image. I'll use this epitome as a texture to blend in with the original image. We'll learn how to speedily alloy images together at the end of this tutorial (texture photograph from Adobe Stock):

The 2d image. Photograph credit: Adobe Stock.

How To Move An Image Between Documents

Method 1: Copy And Paste

The start method nosotros'll learn for moving images between documents is how to re-create and paste an paradigm from one document into some other. To copy and paste an prototype, first select the document that holds the paradigm yous want to movement. With the document active, select the epitome inside the certificate by going upwards to the Select menu in the Menu Bar and choosing All. To copy the image, become up to the Edit menu and choose Re-create. Switch to the document where yous desire to paste the paradigm. And so, go up to the Edit menu and choose Paste. The pasted image volition appear on its ain separate layer to a higher place the original epitome in the Layers console.

Step 1: Select The Kickoff Document

Let's go through the steps for copying and pasting an prototype between documents using my images as an example. I want to move my texture epitome into the same document as my portrait paradigm. Then the first thing I'll do is select my "texture.jpg" certificate by clicking on its tab:

Selecting the document that holds the image to exist copied.

Step 2: Select The Paradigm

To select the image itself, I'll go upwardly to the Select menu in the Card Bar along the top of the screen. Then, I'll choose All. This places a choice outline around my epitome, letting me know that the image is selected:

Going to Select > All.

Pace 3: Copy The Prototype

With the image selected, I'll re-create it to the clipboard past going upward to the Edit menu in the Carte du jour Bar and choosing Copy:

Going to Edit > Copy

Stride four: Switch To The Second Document

Adjacent, I'll switch over to my "portrait.jpg" certificate by clicking on its tab:

Selecting the document where I want to paste the paradigm.

Earlier I paste the image into the document, let's start await in my Layers console. The Layers panel is where we can see all the layers in our document. We'll learn all about layers in other tutorials. For now, notice that the image is sitting on the Groundwork layer. The Background layer is currently the only layer in the document:

The Layers panel showing the document's original image.

Step 5: Paste The Image

To paste my texture image, I'll become up to the Edit card in the Menu Bar. Then, I'll choose Paste:

Going to Edit > Paste.

Photoshop pastes the texture epitome into the document. It looks like my texture photograph is now the only photograph in the document. That's because the texture photograph is sitting in front end of the portrait photo. Since both photos are the same size, the texture image is blocking the portrait image from view:

The "texture.jpg" image has been pasted into the "portrait.jpg" prototype'due south certificate.

To confirm that the document does in fact agree both images, allow's look once again in the Layers panel. This time, we see that we now have non i but two layers. The original portrait image is still sitting on the Background layer. And, Photoshop placed the texture image on a make new layer, named "Layer 1", above it. Certain enough, both images are now in the aforementioned document:

The Layers panel now showing both images in the same Photoshop document.

Resetting The Documents

So that's the offset style of moving images between documents. If you want to follow along with the next methods, you'll kickoff need to reset your two documents back to their original states. First, we'll reset the document where you lot pasted the image. Make sure the certificate is notwithstanding active. Then, become up to the Edit menu in the Menu Bar and choose Undo Paste. This removes the pasted image from the document, leaving yous with just the original image:

Going to Edit > Undo Paste.

Then, switch over to the document that holds the image you copied. To remove the selection outline from around the paradigm, go up to the Select carte du jour and choose Deselect. And with that, you're ready to move on to the next method:

Going to Select > Deselect.

Method 2: Duplicating The Layer

Adjacent, we'll learn how to motion an paradigm from one Photoshop document to another by duplicating the layer. First, make sure the document that holds the epitome to want to move is selected. Go up to the Layer menu in the Menu Bar and choose Duplicate Layer. In the Duplicate Layer dialog box, give the layer a name (optional). In the Destination department of the dialog box, choose the other certificate as the destination. And so, click OK. The image will announced on a new layer in the other document.

Footstep 1: Select The Document That Holds The Image To Be Moved

Let's go through the steps in more than item. Beginning, since I want to motility my texture image into the portrait photo'southward document, I'll select my "texture.jpg" document past clicking its tab:

Selecting the certificate that holds the image to be moved.

If we await in the Layers panel, nosotros see my texture image sitting on the Groundwork layer. This is the layer we're going to duplicate:

The Layers panel showing the texture photo.

Pace 2: Select "Duplicate Layer" From The Layer Menu

To indistinguishable the layer, I'll go upward to the Layer carte du jour in the Card Bar. Then, I'll choose Duplicate Layer:

Going to Layer > Duplicate Layer.

Step 3: Set The Other Certificate As The Destination

This opens Photoshop's Duplicate Layer dialog box. At the tiptop of the dialog box, information technology shows the name of the layer you'll be duplicating. In my example, it's the Groundwork layer. By default, Photoshop only adds the word "copy" to the end of the layer'southward original proper name. This will go the name of the layer ("Background copy") when information technology's moved into the other document. But you can requite the duplicate layer a more descriptive name. Since this layer holds my texture image, I'll change the layer's name to "Texture".

In the Destination section, choose the document you want to motility the epitome into as the destination. I'll choose my "portrait.jpg" document. When you lot're set up, click OK. Photoshop duplicates the layer and sends it over to the other certificate:

Setting the other certificate as the destination for the layer.

Footstep 4: Switch To The Other Document

I'll switch over to my "portrait.jpg" certificate by clicking its tab:

Clicking the tab to switch documents.

And if we look in the Layers panel, nosotros come across my "Texture" layer, which holds my texture image, now sitting above the portrait photo on the Background layer. Both images are now in the aforementioned document:

The texture layer has been duplicated into the portrait certificate.

Related: How to open multiple images equally layers in Photoshop

Resetting The Document

Again if you lot're following along with each method, you'll need to reset your documents earlier you keep. This fourth dimension, the only document we need to reset is the one we moved the paradigm into (in my case, the "portrait.jpg" document). To remove the duplicate layer from the document, go upwards to the Edit menu in the Carte Bar and choose Undo Duplicate Layer:

Going to Edit > Undo Duplicate Layer.

Method three: Elevate And Drib Between Tabbed Documents

The next few ways nosotros'll await at for moving images betwixt documents all involve dragging and dropping the image. We'll start past learning how to drag and driblet an image betwixt tabbed documents. Outset, select the document that holds the image you desire to motility. Select the Move Tool from the Toolbar. Click on the image and drag it upward and onto the tab of the other document. Wait for Photoshop to switch documents. Then, elevate the image from the tab downward into the document window. Press and hold your Shift key and release your mouse button to drib and middle the prototype in the document.

Step 1: Select The Document With The Prototype You lot Desire To Move

In one case again, I'll start by selecting the certificate that contains my texture prototype. I'll exercise that by clicking on the document tab:

Selecting the "texture.jpg" document.

Stride 2: Select The Motility Tool

To drag and driblet the image, we'll need Photoshop's Move Tool. I'll select the Move Tool from the Toolbar along the left of the screen:

Selecting the Motion Tool.

Step three: Drag The Image Onto The Other Document's Tab

With the Move Tool in hand, I'll click on my texture paradigm. Then, I'll drag it up and onto the tab for my "portrait.jpg" document:

Clicking and dragging the texture image onto the portrait document's tab.

Pace iv: Drag From The Tab Into The Document

Keep your mouse button held down and your mouse cursor directly over the tab until you see Photoshop switch documents. In my case, I'll look for it to switch from my texture paradigm to my portrait image. Then, I'll elevate the texture image from the tab down into the portrait document's window:

One time Photoshop switches documents, drag the epitome into the document.

Step 5: Release Your Mouse Push button

To drop the prototype into the document, I'll press and hold my Shift key. Then, I'll release my mouse button. The Shift central tells Photoshop to center the prototype inside the certificate. If you don't need to center the image, release your mouse button without holding Shift. If you look in your Layers panel, you'll see that both images are now in the aforementioned document:

Hold Shift and release your mouse push button to drop and heart the prototype.

Resetting The Document

Let's reset the document so nosotros tin move on to the quaternary method. To remove the image that y'all dragged into the document, go up to the Edit bill of fare and choose Undo Drag Layer:

Going to Edit > Undo Drag Layer.

Method iv: Drag And Driblet Using A Multi-Document Layout

Nosotros've seen how to elevate and drop betwixt two tabbed documents. Now let's acquire how to drag and drop an image between documents using 1 of Photoshop's multi-certificate layouts. We learned all well-nigh multi-document layouts in the previous tutorial.

Become up to the Window menu in the Card Bar, choose Arrange, then choose the 2-up Vertical layout. This places your 2 documents side by side on the screen. Select the Movement Tool from the Toolbar. Click on the prototype you want to motility and drag it into the other document window. Press and agree Shift and release your mouse button to drop and center the epitome in the document. Go upwards to the Window carte, choose Adapt, so choose Consolidate All to Tabs to switch back to the default tabbed document view.

Step one: Select The "2-up Vertical" Layout

I'll start past going up to the Window carte in the Carte Bar and choosing Arrange. From there, I'll select the 2-up Vertical layout:

Going to Window > Suit > two-up Vertical.

This places both of my documents next each other, assuasive me to see both images at one time:

Both images are now visible on the screen.

Stride 2: Select The Move Tool

Next, I'll select the Motility Tool from the Toolbar:

Selecting the Move Tool.

Stride iii: Click And Drag The Prototype Into The Other Document

With the Motility Tool selected, I'll click on my texture prototype and, with my mouse button held down, I'll elevate it into the portrait photo's document window:

Dragging the texture photo into the other document beside it.

Footstep 4: Release Your Mouse Button

To drop and center the texture image, I'll press and hold Shift, and so I'll release my mouse push button. Photoshop copies the texture image from its original document into the portrait document:

Dragging the texture photograph into the other document beside it.

Step five: Choose "Consolidate All to Tabs"

To switch your view from the "2-up Vertical" layout back to the default, tabbed document view, become upwardly to the Window menu, choose Arrange, then choose Consolidate All to Tabs:

Going to Window > Suit > Consolidate All to Tabs.

And at present we're dorsum to the default view, with both images in the aforementioned certificate:

Dorsum to the default tabbed document view.

Resetting The Document

Again, to reset the document back to its original state and so we tin can look at the terminal way of moving images between documents, go upwards to the Edit menu and choose Undo Drag Layer:

Going to Edit > Undo Elevate Layer.

Method five: Elevate And Drop Betwixt Floating Windows

Finally, let's learn how to move an prototype from i document to another in Photoshop by dragging it betwixt two floating windows. Go up to the Window carte, choose Conform, and then choose Float All in Windows. Both images will be visible inside their ain floating document. Select the Movement Tool. Click inside the window of the image you want to motility and elevate it into the other window. Printing and agree Shift and release your mouse button to drib and center the image inside the document. To revert back to the tabbed document view, go up to the Window carte, cull Accommodate, and and so choose Consolidate All to Tabs.

Step 1: Bladder All in Windows

To switch my view from tabbed documents to floating windows, I'll go upward to the Window menu and choose Arrange. So, I'll choose Float All in Windows:

Going to Window > Accommodate > Float All in Windows.

This places each paradigm inside a floating document window. Click on the gray tab area along the acme of the windows to drag and reposition them on the screen then that information technology's easy to drag an image from ane window to the other:

Each photo appears in its ain floating window.

Pace 2: Select The Move Tool

Next, I'll select the Move Tool from the Toolbar:

Selecting the Motion Tool.

Step three: Drag The Image Into The Other Floating Window

With the Motility Tool selected, I'll click on my texture paradigm and drag it into the window that holds my portrait image:

Dragging the image from one window into the other.

Footstep iv: Release Your Mouse Push

To driblet and center the image inside the portrait certificate, I'll press and hold my Shift central, then I'll release my mouse button:

The texture photograph at present appears in both windows.

Step 5: Switch Back To The Tabbed Documents View

With both images now in the same document, I'll switch from floating windows back to tabbed documents by going up to the Window carte du jour, choosing Arrange, and so choosing Consolidate All to Tabs:

Going to Window > Arrange > Consolidate All to Tabs.

Both images are now in the same tabbed document:

Back to the tabbed document view once once again.

Blending The Images Together

Now that we know how to move images into the same Photoshop document, how do we blend them together? At the moment, my texture image is completely blocking my portrait photo from view. To alloy the two images, we can use one of Photoshop'south layer blend modes. I'll become through this apace here, but you can learn more about blending images in our How To Blend Textures With Photos tutorial.

If we await in my Layers panel, we see my texture image (on "Layer one") sitting above my portrait epitome (on the Background layer). The reason the texture is blocking the portrait from view is because the texture layer'south blend mode is currently fix to Normal. The Alloy Mode pick is found in the upper left of the Layers panel:

The blend mode for the texture layer is set to Normal.

The Normal blend mode is Photoshop'south default blend mode. "Normal" means that the layer is non blending at all with the layer below it. To blend my texture in with the portrait image, all I need to practise is change the blend mode to something different. I'll click on the give-and-take "Normal" to open a list of other blend modes. You can try out the unlike blend modes with your images to see which i works best. I'll go with Soft Calorie-free:

Irresolute the blend mode of the texture layer to Soft Light.

And here nosotros meet that just past irresolute the blend mode from Normal to Soft Lite, my texture at present blends in nicely with the portrait, creating an interesting upshot. You can learn even more about alloy modes, including tips for easily switching betwixt them, in our Flip, Mirror and Rotate Designs and Patterns tutorial:

The effect after changing the blend mode of the texture layer to Soft Calorie-free.

Where to go next...

And there we have it! That's five easy ways to move an image between documents in Photoshop, along with a quick look at how to blend your images together using blend modes! In the adjacent lesson, we'll learn how to use workspaces in Photoshop!

Y'all can spring to whatever of the other lessons in this Learning the Photoshop Interface affiliate. Or visit our Photoshop Nuts department for more topics!

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