How to Use Photomerge in Photoshop: Photography Hack

Photomerge is great for illustrators or artists that work at a large scale and can’t use a traditional flat-bed scanner to document their work. Photomerge lets you select multiple photos and automatically batches them together into a single, large file.

4 different shots of the same painting split up in my finder window.

Find the Photomerge Menu

Select the Photomerge section in File>Automate>Photomerge

Find the Photomerge tool at File>Automate>Photomerge

Select the number of photos you want to merge together.

Select your photos to merge.

You’ll end up with a Photomerge that might look kind of out of shape at first.

What a mess.

A few tweaks in Photoshop and you have a perfect file ready for professional prints! No scanner necessary!

A print ready file after tweaking with Photoshop!

Photomerge is a simple tool you can use to transfer large artworks into a printer-friendly format.

If you’re curious about this subject manner, its a stylized clip from Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind. Look forward to more tutorial and art lessons in future posts.

*Please don’t use this photography hack to steal other artist’s unsold work; even for personal use. Please verify that any public works you photograph this way are verified to be copyrighted in the public domain!

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Stephen Dallas

Artist/designer from Kansas City. I created this blog to teach people how to make art, understand terminology, and to enjoy ramen.