Best Way to Setup a Before and After Shot?

I have CS5 and Lightroom 4
Im looking for suggestions or tips on how to combine both the before and after shot in one picture.
If you can show me some samples, that would be great too.
As always, your help is very much appreciated.
Thanks

Not exactly sure what it is you want to do, but I guess this is what you want:

Open both images in PS.
In one image, double (a bit more if you want empty space in between the images) the canvas size in one direction.
Drag and drop the second image and position it.
Save.

^^ That would make it side by side. you could also display them both and screen capture with your settings displayed. You could also drag on onto the other in PS to make a new layer of the after one. PS help will show you how to make an animated .gif that will switch between the 2 layers. PS will also display the differences between them but I forget how to do that.

Automotive Image Editing/Post-Processing: Before and After

In Lightroom you can compare the images of the before and after side by side by hitting the Y key. You can screenshot that and import it into CS5 and crop it however you want.
Here's an example of my screenshot in Lightroom

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Tien, you should know that forum rules limit your image size to 1024 pixels, so please resize this!

Ooops, ok it's fixed

Animated gif is how I do it. 2 layers in photoshop, one before and one after. Open animation window, click drop down menu at right hand corner. Convert to fram animation, set image to forever at 1 second interval. Save for web as .gif

smooth3000 wrote in post #14399960
Ooops, ok it's fixed

Cool, thanks, and that's a very good suggestion for the OP since LR is being used!

Lots of good advice here.
Will give them all a shot.
Thanks all.

Shawn, if you have Windows Vista or Win7 there is a "Snipping Tool" that enables you to just trim out a portion of your active app, so if you do the Lightroom Before/After display then it is really quick to just "snip" that part of the window out and save it as a jpeg. Just make sure that the result is a proper size to post here -- 1024 pixels at the widest and, if you are uploading to here from your computer no more than a 150KB file size. For a screen shot the file size should be no problem, but you can save yourself resizing if you ensure that your Lightroom window is a proper size (doesn't fill up the screen).

chrisa wrote in post #14400277
Animated gif is how I do it. 2 layers in photoshop, one before and one after. Open animation window, click drop down menu at right hand corner. Convert to fram animation, set image to forever at 1 second interval. Save for web as .gif

Can someone put an example of this here, I would like to see the result.

Thanks Tony, I was looking into that too.
Great tool.
Thanks

chrisa....thats cool.
How would I attempt that?
Thanks