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How do I make a multi-photo picture in Adobe Photoshop CS8?

I have a series of three photos that I would like to display horizontally in a row (like those cool pictures they charge $40 for at Sears). I have no idea how to make this happen! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! oh yeah ... it's just cs version 8 not cs 8. sorry! :)

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1. wow. CS8. Someone just came back from the future. The latest version of photoshop is CS3. haha OK, this may require some math. take the horizontal measure of your photos and multiply it by 3. Then decide how many pixels you want for your white borders, and multiply that number by 4. Add that up and put that in the "New" box under file. now, multiply the pixel border number by two, and add the height of the photos. copy and paste your photos into the blank white page. Seperate them in the right format that you want, it should have an even border on all sides when you have all three photos in.
2. I am not sure exactly what you are asking, but if I am guessing right, you want to have one picture that has all three photos in it with maybe a border around them? To do this, create a new document that is slightly wider then all three combined, for this example I will assume all three photos are the same size 600x800. So create a new document 600*3=1800 - total pictures width 50*4=200 - border width width = 2000 length should be 2*50 = 100 - border 800(height) + border = 900 new picture = 900 x 2000 Then open all three pictures in photoshop, and using the move tool, drag them into the new picture you made. You can now close them all out. Arrange all the photos the way you want them to be by selecting the individual layers and dragging them. Create a new layer above teh picture layers and fill it with black(or whatever color you want) Now control click on each picture layer and making sure you have the black layer selected hit delete. Repeat this for each picture. You should now have all three pictures horizontally with a border around them. If this isnt what you want, well I tried. And remember the sizes I used are just subjective, yiou should determine border size based on the actual size of the pictures you have.
3. If you want to print and hang on the wall, like you would the $40 one purchased at Sears, then think big. A 900 x 2000 pixel image printed at 300 dpi will be only 3 x 6.67 inches. Hardly worth $40. If you are using high resolution images from a camera, do not resize them if you want a wall hanger. For a printed finished product, start with a new image as has been suggested and use 300 ppi resolution. Then make sure that your three photographs are 300 ppi before dragging onto the new image. Do this by Image > Resize > Resize Image and look at the box for Resolution. If not 300 ppi, uncheck the Resample box, this will allow you to enter 300 for the resolution. Click OK. BTW, if you start with an 8 megapixel image, the size will be somewhere close to 3264 x 2448 pixels. So 3 x 3264 = 9792 pixels + space between and border 100 px each (400 px) equals 10192 pixels in width. Height will be 2448 + 200 = 2648 pixels. This will print, using the settings of 300 ppi mentioned above, 33.97 x 8.827 inches. If starting with other size images, do the math.