Drag & Drop Help

Has the drag & drop function in Photoshop CC 2015 been eliminated?
I was able to use it in the past and unless I'm doing something wrong, it no longer works.

I'm trying to use it with images from the same folder on the desktop hard drive and, trying to get both images in the same document with the bounding box showing.

When I try to drag and drop the second image I want to import, I get the circle with a line through it icon.
I've also tried dragging the background image from the layers pallet to the non highlighted tab image but that doesn't work either.

I've searched for a solution but have yet to find one.

Using a PC, Windows 7 Pro and Photoshop CC 2015 is up to date.

Found a solution.

Which was what? It might be useful to others in the future.

Alan

Drag and Drop works for me.

BigAl007 wrote in post #18036700
Which was what? It might be useful to others in the future.

Alan

I was going to explain the solution but I thought it was a well known technique and I just wasn't remembering how to do it.
Plus I tend to go into too much detail and have a long post when explaining something!

Having said that, here we go.
I am working in the Essential work space when doing this.

From the same folder on my PC hard drive, I imported into Photoshop the two images I wanted to use.
I imported them by going to that folder and double clicking on each individual image one at a time.

When I double click on the first image, it will appear in the Photoshop work space.
When I double click on the second image, it will appear in the Photoshop work space overriding the first image.
All that appears in the layers pallet is a background of the second image imported.

At the top of the work space area, I have two tabs, one tab is white in colour and that is for the image being displayed in the work space.
The other tab is greyed out and that is for the image that was imported first.

To get both images in the same document of the work space, I click on the move tool, then click and hold on the image displayed in the work space.
Keeping the mouse left click button held down, I start moving the cursor towards the greyed out tab at the top of the work space.
As the cursor starts to move, a little black box with two sets of numbers appears.
These numbers change as the cursor moves. Not sure what the numbers represent. Maybe image dimensions?

Once the cursor is at the greyed out tab, keeping the left click button held down, I keep the cursor directly on top of the tab for a second and then the image for that greyed out tab will appear in the work space.
Once that happens, keeping the left click button held down, I drag the cursor back down on the visible image in the work space.
There is a little + indicator beside the cursor as the cursor starts moving.

Once the cursor is at least half way down on the image visible in the work space, I release the left click button to drop the image.
Along with the image that was already visible in the work space, I then see some or most of the image that was dragged and dropped.
The transform control box will also appear in the dropped image
The "show transform control" towards the top left of the screen needs to be checked in order to see the transform control box lines.

With the move tool still active, I hold down the shift key and click on any of the anchor points of the transform control box and then move the image to the position I want in the work space.

Keeping the shift key held down while moving the image, constrains the image.

Once I have things position, I click on the check mark towards the top right of the work space window to "commit transform".

I'm sure there is probably an easier way of doing all this that I'm unaware of but, this method works for what I wanted to do.

Hope this does help someone.
I think it has helped me because I probably won't forget how to do this again after typing this out.

canongear wrote in post #18036942
I was going to explain the solution but I thought it was a well known technique and I just wasn't remembering how to do it.
Plus I tend to go into too much detail and have a long post when explaining something!

Having said that, here we go.
I am working in the Essential work space when doing this.

From the same folder on my PC hard drive, I imported into Photoshop the two images I wanted to use.
I imported them by going to that folder and double clicking on each individual image one at a time.

When I double click on the first image, it will appear in the Photoshop work space.
When I double click on the second image, it will appear in the Photoshop work space overriding the first image.
All that appears in the layers pallet is a background of the second image imported.

At the top of the work space area, I have two tabs, one tab is white in colour and that is for the image being displayed in the work space.
The other tab is greyed out and that is for the image that was imported first.

To get both images in the same document of the work space, I click on the move tool, then click and hold on the image displayed in the work space.
Keeping the mouse left click button held down, I start moving the cursor towards the greyed out tab at the top of the work space.
As the cursor starts to move, a little black box with two sets of numbers appears.
These numbers change as the cursor moves. Not sure what the numbers represent. Maybe image dimensions?

Once the cursor is at the greyed out tab, keeping the left click button held down, I keep the cursor directly on top of the tab for a second and then the image for that greyed out tab will appear in the work space.
Once that happens, keeping the left click button held down, I drag the cursor back down on the visible image in the work space.
There is a little + indicator beside the cursor as the cursor starts moving.

Once the cursor is at least half way down on the image visible in the work space, I release the left click button to drop the image.
Along with the image that was already visible in the work space, I then see some or most of the image that was dragged and dropped.
The transform control box will also appear in the dropped image
The "show transform control" towards the top left of the screen needs to be checked in order to see the transform control box lines.

With the move tool still active, I hold down the shift key and click on any of the anchor points of the transform control box and then move the image to the position I want in the work space.

Keeping the shift key held down while moving the image, constrains the image.

Once I have things position, I click on the check mark towards the top right of the work space window to "commit transform".

I'm sure there is probably an easier way of doing all this that I'm unaware of but, this method works for what I wanted to do.

Hope this does help someone.
I think it has helped me because I probably won't forget how to do this again after typing this out.

Would it not be easier just to "copy and paste" that way the images are automatically aligned.

Easier still, just open Photoshop and then open the folder with your images.
Click on one of the images and then drag it onto the grey work area in Photoshop.
Repeat with the second image.
In Photoshop you will now have ONE document with TWO layers.

john crossley wrote in post #18036971
Would it not be easier just to "copy and paste" that way the images are automatically aligned.

Easier still, just open Photoshop and then open the folder with your images.
Click on one of the images and then drag it onto the grey work area in Photoshop.
Repeat with the second image.
In Photoshop you will now have ONE document with TWO layers.

Dragging the images from the folder into Photoshop is initially what I wanted to do but I'm unable to.

When I click on the first image from the folder I want to drag and drop into the Photoshop work space, I get the circle with the line through it and I'm prevented from dragging and dropping that image.
So, I imported the first image by double clicking it and it shows as a background in the layers panel.
I then went back to the same folder and tried dragging the second image but end up getting the circle with the line through it again.

When trying to figure this out, I came across postings from other sites where users were having the same problem.
Most of them were trying to import images from the web I think but, I'm not.

What started all of this for me was I was trying to replace a background and the person in the video I was watching, used the drag and drop method.

Here is a picture of the circle with the line through it when I try to drag an image from a folder on my hard drive.
The image at the bottom right is the one I was attempting to drag. The circle with the line through it is to the right of that.
Sorry about the image quality but, it's an actual picture of the monitor screen.
I couldn't get a screen grab or snipping tool capture with the circle in it.

P.S. I used the "bounding box" as the wrong term in my initial post.
Should've said transform tool.

One approach that I've taken is to start out with your "Background" image, get it into the editor as the "Background Layer". Then you can bring the second image into the editor -- it won't initially be part of the Background image.

From there you decide how you want to "fit" them together. If you just have one subject in the second image that you want to put over the background, I might tend to do the cropping/selecting in the separate image, do whatever resizing/processing you need to do, then just Copy and Paste the selected subject into the first "project" as a separate layer where you can do whatever tweaking you like, just keep the two layers selected separately when you want to just work on one layer!

tonylong wrote in post #18037795
One approach that I've taken is to start out with your "Background" image, get it into the editor as the "Background Layer". Then you can bring the second image into the editor -- it won't initially be part of the Background image.

From there you decide how you want to "fit" them together. If you just have one subject in the second image that you want to put over the background, I might tend to do the cropping/selecting in the separate image, do whatever resizing/processing you need to do, then just Copy and Paste the selected subject into the first "project" as a separate layer where you can do whatever tweaking you like, just keep the two layers selected separately when you want to just work on one layer!

Thanks for explaining another way of doing this.
I tried it and it worked.

I found a video that shows a couple of other easy methods as well for replacing the background.
It's from Adobe Creative Cloud TV.
Here is the link if you are interested.

https://youtu.be/tnW-3LggEFE