Photoshop help?

[decadence]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a new graphic to go at the top of my webpage. It's one of those photo composites which go at the top of pages, made up of several different photos. Like at www.stanford.edu

Unfortunately I'm finding it hard to get to grips with Adobe Photoshop (it's just ver 5.LE). I have Paint Shop Pro 8 too, but I don't know if that would do what I wanted to.

So, in Photoshop I have a 732x111 pixels blank canvas, (apparently it's a layer?) and up to about ten pictures (i.e. jpegs) that I'd want to resize to that height and paste sequentially into the main image. Should I 'select all', 'paste', 'duplicate', 'paste into', 'add new layers'??? I'm so confused!

decadence

[queequek]

The easiest way is to resize all your small jpg files to the same height (you can use "image size" command), i.e. 111 pix.
Then use the black arrow tool, click the small jpg then drag it to the main canvas. They will automatically create new layers for individual pictures.

Oh, for best result, don't forget to create the guide lines by clicking on the ruler, then drag it to the edge of individual pics, to exactly line up with the next pic. Then choose the snap to guide/grid option, so no layer will overlap one another.

After arrange all your pics on the same canvas, you can change your canvas size to delete leftover space, then "flatten the image".

Hope that helps