10 Lightroom to Photoshop for Combining Photos

Lesson overview

One of the most rewarding image-editing techniques is combining photos in creative ways, whether adding texture or fading photos into a collage. Lightroom doesn’t support layers, so you need Adobe Photoshop for these feats. Lightroom lets you merge multiple exposures into a high dynamic range (HDR) image or stitch several photos together into a panorama, though. It also has a few new tricks for merging photos of different exposures into an HDR panorama image.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Add texture to a photo using another photo and Photoshop’s layer blend modes.

  • Fade photos together using a soft brush and layer masks or Photoshop’s shape tools.

  • Combine photos into a collage. ...

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