Photoshop Merge

Ive seens those pictures with one person in different posintions of a room and put together as one picture. My question is is there an HDR type tool in photoshop to do this or do u have to cut out the person's different positions?.........

thanx

1 Put camera on tripod

2 Take photo of self

3 Move across room

4 Take second photo of self using the exact same settings (shutter speed, f/stop, everthing).

5 Open both shots in Photoshop

6 Select one using select / all then edit / copy from the drop down menu

7 Go to OTHER shot and edit / paste from the drop down menu (This pastes a copy of the other shot on top of this one, just like two pieces of paper stacked on top of each other.)

8 Use the Erase Tool (see below) to erase the empty chair on the top layer to reveal YOU sitting in the chair which is on the bottom layer.

9 Get all self congratulatory

10 Repeat lots of times with you sitting here, there and everywhere. (Playing poker with your self is a very popular one, as is handing yourself a beer, or threating yourself with a weapon, as you watch.)

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Isnt there a way to basically do an hdr?

Am I missing something in your question? Why would you want to increase the dynamic range? I don't follow.

This has nothing to do with HDR: HDR is merging multiple exposures, to increase dynamic range. This is merging multiple photo's with the same exposure to get a bunch of brothers
The easiest way, is the way Radtech described, allthough I'd prefer to use layer masks.
There is a thread somewhere on POTN describing exactely what you want...
edit:Found it.

I was just thinkink that maybe you could merge all the photos together somehow to skip the step of having to cut or erase people out

No. Unless you want the people transparent...

JeremyLangford wrote in post #3208519
I was just thinkink that maybe you could merge all the photos together somehow to skip the step of having to cut or erase people out

Well, technically, there is a way, but you would have to do a decent amount of thinking ahead of time to do it.

If the "person" being added to the shot is darker than the area added - so your shirt must be darker than the chair - then just add the layer and set blend mode to "darken", and the person will magically appear in the chair.

Rad

As much as you would like a easy solution there isn't one where the computer does the work. You are going to have to do some precise photoshop work yourself to facilitate this.