GIMP help - Layers

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I'm in no position to afford Photoshop just yet but have been using GIMP whichI am led to believe is just as good, and free.

I have just learnt how to layer one picture onto another and have experimented with me sat down on a sofa. It worked really well and people are bemused at the outcome.

I cannot for the life of trying work out how to use 3 or 4 or more pictures to do the same? Can anyone help or link me to a site to explain. There are lots of tutorials on youtube showing the above technique but only for 2 pictures, not 3 or more....arrrgghh
 
If you know how to blend 2 photos together then doing more is simple.

think of it this way. you start with 2 images and blend those together. This makes one image.

Now add your next image as you did before. rinse and repeat :)

Each new photo will require its own layer.

Here is a quick googled link for gimp (multiple exposures)

http://halley.cc/photo/multexp/gimp.multexp.3.html
 
Just quick off the top of my head, the 'File' drop-down has an 'Open as Layers'. Clicking this will take you to the file open box, opening the selected images (but one at a time? Not tried multi-select) as a layer. Many times=many layers.

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*Just tried selecting a few at once, 3 for this exercise. Multi-select works fine :)
 
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You can get a legal version of Elements 6, which will do layers (and RAW) for under £10 from Amazon.
 
Will take a look on amazon. Need to digest the link on gimp first. I have followed instructions to layer 2 pics together and it worked fine. I tried using the same method with 5 pics but it didn't like it and started to rub out parts I intended to keep. Other option is to layer 2 pics, then save it, then do the same procedure over again but surely there is a quicker way of doing all 5 at once. I'm new to the software side of things and there are several different ways of obtaining the same outcome.

Out of curiosity, with 2 pics I copied one and pasted onto the first, then layered and brushed in the pasted areas. With 3 do I need to copy in 2 pics onto the background? It's very confusing this is but the outcomes are brilliant
 
And Gimp does it for free :D

(as long as its for non-commercial use, I wasn't aware they had restrictions on it until about a month ago)
 
Load your original image, create a new empty layer, copy next image on to that layer and you can simply use the eraser tool to delete everything you don't want on that second layer.

Then add another empty layer, copy the next image in to it. Then, make sure its the selected layer, again start deleting what you don't want on that layer. To make it easier, just hide the layers you have already done.

it's been a while since I use gimp but it should be pretty easy :)
 
GIMP is good. Does most that PS does and them some, also not so resource hungry and it's free
 
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