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page twoSave the new document. Then choose View > Show Rulers. Place your pointer on, or in the horizontal ruler at the top of the image. Press the left mouse button, and drag a guide onto the image to the two inch mark on the vertical ruler. Drag another horizontal guide to the four inch mark.
Do the same thing with the vertical ruler. Place your pointer on the ruler, and drag two guides onto the image at the two, and four inch marks. You should end up with a something that looks like a tic tac toe outline.
Choose View > Lock Guides to lock them in place. This will prevent you from accidentally moving them in the editing we’re going to do next.
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Make sure the New Selection square is chosen in the options bar. It’s number one in the enlarged illustration below.
Next choose View > Snap, and be sure it’s selected. Check View > Snap To and make sure Guides is selected. A selected item will have a check mark next to it. Each time you choose the item from the menu it toggles it on or off.
Click once on your image with the marquee tool. A 2 inch by 2 inch selection square will appear. With the marquee tool still selected, place your pointer within the selection boundary and drag it to enclose an interesting part of the image. I chose the puppy’s face.
Choose the move tool in the toolbox. Press and hold the Alt key, and place the pointer within the selection boundary. Then, still pressing the Alt key, drag the selection’s contents over to the new document. Position the moved selection square in the central square made by the guides, as shown above. Since Snap To is turned on, it should snap into place.
When an image is dragged from one window to another, it is automatically placed on its own, new layer. In the Layers palette, click on the new layer to choose it. Click on the little arrow in the upper right corner of the palette, and choose Layer Properties from the menu. Name the layer “multi-images”, and give it a color.
Save, and close your original photograph. We won’t be using it again until later, and it’s very important that it not be changed in any way.
Click on the new layer in the open document to select it, if it isn’t still selected. Choose the rectangular marquee tool. Click once on the document. Drag the square selection outline to be over the square image you just moved there.
Choose the move tool, and, pressing the Alt key, drag a copy to be in the square at the top left of the document. Release the mouse button, then release the Alt key. Then, press the Alt key, and drag another copy to be in another square. Keep repeating this until all the squares have copies in them. Remember, that you have to copy, and move from the selected square, not any of the others.
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