Easiest way to create a diptych in photoshop?

Hi. is there an easy way to create a diptych out of two images with a border around the whole picture in photoshop without doing it the long way of calculating the width and size that the two images you will use, "guessing" the amount of pixels i wish to attain more for room for a border and just copy and paste the images on the new custom sized canvas?

is this the only way to do it?

example of what i am trying to achieve in an easier manner

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/josh1408/741053​9386/

I don't know any easy way in Photoshop other than using layers.
Then you have to adjust the image size manually
It it so very easy to do in Lightroom 4 using the print module if you have the software.
You could try the trial version if you don't have it

Please link someone else's photo rather than embed them, its against the rules

RichSoansPhotos wrote in post #15086231
Please link someone else's photo rather than embed them, its against the rules

uhh? what is against the rules? i do not understand? plus this is my PIC i took myself.

Anyways yea i have lightroom.

jonneymendoza wrote in post #15085168
Hi. is there an easy way to create a diptych out of two images with a border around the whole picture in photoshop without doing it the long way of calculating the width and size that the two images you will use, "guessing" the amount of pixels i wish to attain more for room for a border and just copy and paste the images on the new custom sized canvas?

is this the only way to do it?

What's so hard about that?
You can see the size of the images in pixels in Image > Image size.

You resize one so both have the same height.

You resize the canvas of one image to add the width of the second + the amount of pixels you want in between. The "Relative" checkbox is your friend. Choose any background color you want. (If the first image isn't a flattened image, you will get a transparent canvas, place a layer behind to get a fill color).

This will add enough canvas for two images of 3744 x 5616 px images with a 20px border in between:

No quick and easy one step method. But a somewhat quicker method:

1- Load up first image
2- Change canvas size
3- Place second mage on larger canavas - (File > Place). This allows you to move/resize the second image to fit within the larger canvas.
4- Run an action to create a border.

Here's an action to create a border. It uses the Foreground color - so change the foreground color before running it. It will stop and prompt you for the width of the border by pixel number.

http://www.upl.me/cm9f​On

Here's an easy, no calculation method courtesy of Matt Kloskowski. This takes much longer to describe than to do:

1. To make things easy, set your foreground and background colors to the default (black/white).
2. Create a new blank (white background) document of the appropriate size.
3. Create a new, transparent layer on top of the background layer.
4. Select the Marquee Tool.
5. Draw a box on left side for the first photo of whatever size and shape you want.
6. Press Alt-Backspace to fill the shape with black.
7. Use the Marquee tool to draw a box for the second photo (also on the same transparent layer) and fill with black.
8. Open the photo for the left side and drag it on top of the layer with the black boxes.
9. Press Ctrl-T to get the Free Transform handles and resize the photo so that it is slightly larger than the left side black box. Don't worry if it spills over to the right side, that will be fixed in a moment. Only use the corner handles so you don't distort the image!
10. Press Ctrl-G to Group the top and middle layers. The black box(es) will act as a layer mask for your first picture.
11. Open the second (right side) image, drag on top of everything else, position over the second black box, resize as needed, press Ctrl-G to group and mask.
12. If one image overlaps into the other box, reorder the top two layers as needed to hide the overlap.
13. Use the move tool on each of the images to get the precise positioning that you require.
14. If you now want a black background rather than while, change the background layer to black (or any color desired).

Edit -- Additional: for precise sizing and positioning of your mask boxes, turn on the rulers (Ctrl-Shift-R), then click on the ruler and drag onto the image to create guide lines where you want the margins and the space between the boxes.

dont forget, i want to resize the image properly and not make the image look like it was stretched

Not sure if you have Lightroom 4 and the print module, but it is 100 times better than Phototshop when it comes to doing stuff like this.

Check this video for some info on it: http://tv.adobe.com …-print-the-perfect-image/

If you have a Kelby Training account, you can also watch Matt Kloskowski do it in a more detailed manner in his Lightroom 4 tutorial.

I made this the other day using Lightroom 4:

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I use this in Photoshop.

http://lumens.se/tychp​anel/

Pretty good.

If your images are allways 3:2 lanscape and a 2:3 portrait image (or others, as long as the aspect ratios are allways the same) then I imagine it is possible to automate it with an action. I tried but mine messed up on cropped images.

Lightroom is handy for this in that you can selet two images, then use the "Edit in->Open as layers in Photoshop". Then run your action. Images would need to be selected in the right order.

Seems to me that it's as easy as making a new PS document the size you want, making a background layer the color you want (black, white, etc.). Then placing the photos as layers on the document and sizing accordingly, making use of Smart Guides to ensure you have everything aligned properly.

splbound wrote in post #15109297
I use this in Photoshop.

http://lumens.se/tychp​anel/

Pretty good.

Wow, very nice.