Merge Two Objects Side by Side?

dnuzzomueller · Post by **dnuzzomueller** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:40 pm

Can anyone aim me towards a command that could be used to merge two images into one so that they show up as side-by-side images? I am relatively new to PS-Scripting and I just can't seem to find any sort of command either designed to do this, or one to paste layers at given X,Y coordinates.

bdeshazer · Post by **bdeshazer** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:48 pm

dnuzzomueller wrote:Can anyone aim me towards a command that could be used to merge two images into one so that they show up as side-by-side images? I am relatively new to PS-Scripting and I just can't seem to find any sort of command either designed to do this, or one to paste layers at given X,Y coordinates.

If the two images will always be the same size, orientation and aspect ratio this is fairly easy to do with just a Photoshop action using the "image->canvas size" and "layer->align" commands and copy/paste. Beyond that scripting would probably be needed, if you're using DOM then look at the Javascript Reference Guide for the Move and Translate methods of the ArtLayer object as a starting point.

dnuzzomueller · Post by **dnuzzomueller** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 1:29 pm

I am not really a designer in all honesty, I am just trying to stumble through the documentation to make some of the photo-processing tasks at work a little bit more automated (I am the Network guy, turned PS scripter at a start-up).

The images will not always be the exact same size pixel wise but essentially they will always be aligned either left-right, right-left, top-down, etc. for any batch.

Thank you for the starting point though.