I have a Photoshop question hopefully someone can help me with.
If I have 3 different .psd files, each of which is the same resolution (we'll just say 1024x768 for this example) and these images consist of a single small object in the middle surrounded by transparency (such as a person who has been cut out of another image), how can open these three files and copy/past the layers to get them all into a single image AND have the objects be aligned to the same position they were in the new 1024x768 image as they were in the previoius one?
I ask this because if you hit ctrl-a to select the entire canvas, then ctrl-c to copy, then past into another image of the same resolution, Photoshop only pays attention to the dimensions of an imaginary bounding box drawn around the graphic, not the canvas size when the borders of the canvas are transparent. So when you past the object, that say, was off to the side will be pasted to the middle, when I need it to be in the EXACT same spot in the new composite image as it was in the old one.
I've also tried draging the layer from the layers palette from one image to another and it doesn't drop it squarely.
I'm not a Photoshop ninja but I'm not a beginner either. Any help would be much appreciated.
BTW - I'm drawing images in Illustrator that contain several layers I want to preserve, so I am saving separate files in Illustrator that I'm opening in Photoshop, manipulating, then layering together. Exporting as a .psd from Illustrator isn't working for me, layers aren't being preserved properly.
I'm using Illustrator CS and Photoshop 7.0
If I have 3 different .psd files, each of which is the same resolution (we'll just say 1024x768 for this example) and these images consist of a single small object in the middle surrounded by transparency (such as a person who has been cut out of another image), how can open these three files and copy/past the layers to get them all into a single image AND have the objects be aligned to the same position they were in the new 1024x768 image as they were in the previoius one?
I ask this because if you hit ctrl-a to select the entire canvas, then ctrl-c to copy, then past into another image of the same resolution, Photoshop only pays attention to the dimensions of an imaginary bounding box drawn around the graphic, not the canvas size when the borders of the canvas are transparent. So when you past the object, that say, was off to the side will be pasted to the middle, when I need it to be in the EXACT same spot in the new composite image as it was in the old one.
I've also tried draging the layer from the layers palette from one image to another and it doesn't drop it squarely.
I'm not a Photoshop ninja but I'm not a beginner either. Any help would be much appreciated.
BTW - I'm drawing images in Illustrator that contain several layers I want to preserve, so I am saving separate files in Illustrator that I'm opening in Photoshop, manipulating, then layering together. Exporting as a .psd from Illustrator isn't working for me, layers aren't being preserved properly.
I'm using Illustrator CS and Photoshop 7.0
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