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When you combine two images into one, it's called a Diptych.
If you combine three into one, it's a Triptcyh.
You can combine any number of images using Lightroom 4.
Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom 4.
You can use earlier versions of Lightroom as well.
I am using Lightroom 4 today.
The reason I make these combinations in Lightroom instead of Photoshop is that
in Lightroom, I am allowed to save templates.
So I can create a Diptych, save a template and then
next time I want to create a Diptych with two other images,
I can simply call up my template and add different images into it.
So it saves me a lot of time if I create a template.
So, I am going to show you how to do that using Lightroom.
So, the way you want to start in Lightroom is
you need to be in a Collection.
So I am in a "Quick Collection", which is
a great way to make a collection of images that you
need to put together temporarily. These are
I've got about 15 images or so here.
And these are just the images that I'm going to choose from to make my Diptych.
It doesn't mean I'm going to use them all. I just want them available.
So I created a "Quick Collection" in the Library module
by selecting a bunch of images and holding down,
pressing the B key, B as in boy.
That just makes a temporary "Quick Collection". I can select an image
and press B again, and it goes out of the Collection.
Once I have my collection, the bulk of this work is done in the Print module.
So I am going to click on the Print module.
And when you do that, you see a whole different layout
and you see what looks like a piece of paper,
and you see a template browser over here and
I've got my film strip down here showing all of my images.
So just to get started, I'm going to click on one image.
There. And you can see that it's rotated its..
I think it's changed its size. It's made it fit into that,
so there is a lot of work we have to do on this
to get it to work for the Diptych, the kind of Diptych I want to make.
So, what I'm going to do is go into the lower left here
where it says "Page Setup" right here
and I'm going to click on "Page Setup",
and pull that down so you can see it.
And right now it says that I'm using a paper size "US letter".
I like to work on a larger canvas size so I go to "US legal" which is 8 1/2 by 14 inches.
You can also create custom sizes.
There is nothing to stop you creating a size that is one foot by five feet, for instance.
But I'm just going to go with this for now.
I'm also going to change the orientation to Landscape or horizontal.
Then, I'll click OK on that.
Right, that's good. Now I have more space to work with.
But I still know that this image is being forced to fit into this, so
and the reason for that is up here.
I have this box selected. Whoops. Sorry about that.
Go back to that tool.
"Zoom to Fill" is why my image is getting,
being forced into that box the way it is.
And "Rotate to Fit" is why my image at first was
was rotated. So I don't want either of those.
So I'm going out of that tool, and I'm going to turn "Zoom to Fill" and "Rotate to Fit" off.
All right. I still only have one picture there.
And if I come down to my filmstrip, and hold down Command and select two images,
I still only have one picture there.
So, what's wrong?
What's wrong is I need to come over to the layout
on the side here and there is something called Page Grid.
And right now, it says one row and one column.
So, I'm going to change that
to two columns. That will give me two side-by-side columns.
Now I got lucky here. My images butted up against one another and
I didn't have to do anything about it. But
you probably won't get that lucky.
So what you need to do if your images show up with space in between
is come over to these cell size sliders
and make them touch, like so.
All right. That's pretty good.
These are not the images I want side-by-side though.
But I'm getting closer to being able to save the template.
So I can click on two images. I'm holding down the Command key,
selecting an image, doing another one.
Now, one thing I've learned is that if I select two images on my film strip,
the image that's on the left on the film strip will be on the left on the Diptych
And the image that's to the right on the filmstrip will be to the right.
It doesn't matter what order you click them in.
So if I want these two images to be together but I want to reverse the order,
I need to actually come down to the film strip and reverse the order.
This is a collection so I'm allowed to order it manually,
so I can just click and drag
and if I want the dog on the left
and this astronomer on the right, I can do that.
So that's kind of nice.
So, I'm actually going to put these two images together.
I like the way that looks. I like the configuration, the cell size,
the cell spacing, the number of cells, the paper size.
Those are all the things that will be remembered when I create a template.
I have to go in here and just erase a template so
pretend you didn't see that template.
So I have no templates now.
Now if you happen to be one of my students and you're doing this for an assignment,
one thing that I will stress is that you need to have no space between your images.
They need to butt together. They need to go right up against each other, like so.
So I'll be checking for little lines between them. So there's no line there now.
The line you do see is simply the guide.
I can take the guide out by clicking that.
That's kind of nice. I can see what it will look like.
Put the guide back in there now.
So once I'm happy with this
I come over to the template browser
and I'm going to just simply click on the plus button
and by default it comes up to the user templates,
because those are the ones you can change. They're not the Lightroom templates
and I'll just type in Diptych.
D-I-P-T-Y-C-H. A notoriously difficult word to spell.
and click "Create".
All right. There, I have the template.
Any time I want I can come back to the Print module,
I can go to the template browser,
I can call it that Diptych template,
and I can put different images in it.
But we're not finished yet, because we need to send this to a file.
Now, we're in the Print module, so Lightroom thinks we want to print something.
We don't really want to print something, we really just want to save
this Diptych as a single file that we can then
import back into Lightroom and we can edit it,
just like any other file in Lightroom
I can make it lighter or darker.
I will be able to crop all that white space off of it,
which is also something you'll want to do if you're one of my students.
So we come to the right here, and we scroll to the bottom where it says "Print Job".
Let me zoom in on this so you can kind of take a look at it.
And let's see if i can..
want to zoom in on this particular place on there so you can see
Okay, it says. Sorry about that. I'll get it right.
Okay, it says "Print to: Printer" by default
That's the default and we want to change it to "Print to: JPEG file"
I'll also change this print resolution to be a little bit higher,
but I have zoom out in order to do that for you.
So I'm changing this to JPEG file. Printing to a JPEG file.
I'm not really printing. I think when you select JPEG file, it would be nice of the system
to change to "Export as" or something like that.
File resolution.. Oh it changed for me. As a JPEG file, I want 300 ppi.
You probably can't read that on your screen.
I don't need print sharpening
and that's it. So I'm ready to send this to a JPEG file and
I'm going to click this button down here that says "Print to File"
Now when I do that I will be asked where it should go
and I'm just going to put this on my desktop for now
and I'm going to call it
"diptych01". I'm going to call it "diptych02" because I made one earlier
and I don't want things to get confused.
And I'll just put it loose on my desktop and you'll see there is a progress bar up here
and it says "preparing print job"
and we'll come back down
once that's finished
now what i need to do is go back to the lightroom module,
I need to import that file and I need to finish
the task at hand which is to crop it to size
So I'm going back to the lightroom module,
And I'm going up to the Lightroom menu, which you can't see
and select "Import photos and videos"
and I'm sure this is familiar to most of you
and we'll just click on this one and select "Import"
I'm just moving this over. You can add it in the same location, but I moved mine over
There I have it. This is showing me my most recent import. I'm now in the Library module
and I can double click on that to see it
and I can zoom in on it
and you'll notice that I did not quite eliminate that space
which is fine. I'm not going to go back and do this during the demonstration
but that's something to pay attention to. I'm working in a small window
because I want to capture the video and I don't want the video to be
too large when it goes to Youtube. So I wasn't able to see that I have this space
in here. But when you're working you'll probably be
working in a larger window and you won't have that problem
Now one thing I want to do now that I have it in the Library
is go to the Develop tool
I'm sorry, the Develop module
and click on the Crop tool
and I want to crop all the white space off of here,
but I need to free up the Aspect ratio lock. So I'm going to click on this little padlock
so that I can move it freely
if I didn't, it would always stay at that same aspect ratio
and I'm just going to eliminate all the white border off this thing
and there I have my Diptych
Now anytime I want I can go back to that template
I can make another one. I can also work on this as if it was a single file
I could change the exposure on it, things like that
Not something I really need to do
But that's the tutorial, I'm making a Diptych
You can customize this for your own needs. you can make
grids of four or six. You can make tripychs,
as long as you save the template and I'll go back here
You'll see you'll always have that template available
Remember I'll have to be in a collection, I'm not in a collection now, so it's not quite working.
So if I go into a collection, back to "Quick Collection"
and then I go into the Print module and the Diptych,
I could create another Diptych easily.
One thing i will do while I happen to be here is
I will go up to my cell size.. and..
I'll make sure they're touching
and now I will update that Diptych with the current setting,
What I'll do is I'll right click on that Diptych template and I'll say
update with current setting, so it saves properly now
All right.Thanks very much and I'll see you next time.