Total Newbie! How to add an image to a logo in CS2

Hi There!

I am a total CS2 newbie!!! Have previously used Corel Draw for all my graphics etc. I know it wasn't big and it wasn't clever, but it did make ok'ish logos...lol.

Anyway, I'm now having a crack with Photoshop and am crashing and burning at the first hurdle!! ROFL!!

I have managed to put together a logo with reasonable looking text, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to add a graphic to the logo.

The graphic is just a small jpeg file, but when I try to open it from 'my pictures' it opens on a seperate screen to the logo, so I can't combine the two.

Any help would be really much appreciated!!

Thanks in advance...and sorry I'm so dumb at this...lol.

Calam.

Each file opens as a document. With both documents (images) open, use the Move tool (little cross upper right in the toolnbox) and drag the image from its window to the logo window. It will be on its own layer. You can position it as yu wish with thew Move tool.

You need to look through the manual and maybe get a book or two on Photoshop. Photoshop is fairly complex but when learned is not too difficult.

Open the first document.

Go FILE>PLACE

In the resulting dialogue box, navigate to the second document and click Okay

The second image will now be "placed" as a new layer over the first with the "Transform" bounding box ready activated for resizing.

Because "Place" creates a "Smart Object" you can repeatedly resize (using Free Transform) without any image degradation.

If you need to have the image inside the logo, use a clipping group/ clipping mask: ALT+click on the line between the two layers (in the layers palette)

Can you Place a jpg? Maybe in CS2, which I don't have.

Can you Place a jpg?

Yes.

Maybe in CS2

In CS2 and CS too!

Are you sure? When I go to File>Place in CS all I get as choices are eps, pdf, ai, pdp.

No Smart Objects in CS remember.

Ed. Just opened CS(1), blew the dust off it, and d'you know - you're right!

Because a never work with Jpegs (other than to save for web) I assumed CS1 was the same as CS2.

I guess it wasn't quite finished when they launched CS1 and they refined it for CS2. I use the Place command all the time these days.

Sorry for the misinformation folks! ;-)

Placing a raster file only works in CS2 (with smart objects).