"Stacking" (?) images - How?

[anne_kerr]

<p>Hey, guys. Went shooting yesterday and took some shots on an 11-story abandoned building. It was good practice. <br>

I have a few photos that are sort of "in sequence" -- that's the best way I can think of describing it right now. I have another set of shots of a bunch of ants carrying away a bee, too. I've been thinking I'd like to try to "stack" (is that the right term?) the photos. With the one of the bee, I used the same technique I use when I take panoramas (photo merge). Photo merge didn't work with this roof picture for some reason. I tried "stacking" and that doesn't work. The product is a blur. Why? How can I make it work? I pasted the photos on here in case someone needed to see them...<br>

Thanks for any help.<br>

http://s9.postimg.org/xmaxba3f3/DSC06480.jpg<br>

http://s9.postimg.org/6yoisvxe7/DSC06481.jpg<br>

http://s9.postimg.org/45vb8ux1r/DSC06482.jpg</p>

 

[MichaelChang]

<p>Hi Ann, you want your subject to appear as an action sequence in a single photo, correct? </p>

<p>There are two steps to this:</p>

<p>The first is to align the layers as you would with a panorama or the pictures will become a messy blur once you merge them. This is because you took the shots hand-held so there's a slight offset between shots. Some photo editors have an auto-align function or do it manually if not. You'll end up with 3 pictures "stacked" and their background in alignment. </p>

<p>The second step is to create a layer mask and "paint" the subject on the lower layers so they will appear, then fix up the details around the subject and flatten the layers. </p>

<p>Have a look at some of the tutorial videos on YouTube for step-by-step details:<br>

[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=action+sequence+photoshop&oq=action+sequence+photoshop&gs_l=youtube.3..0.634.7307.0.8881.25.13.0.12.12.0.94.908.13.13.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.gpZ00ap-0wQ">Link</a>]</p>

[anne_kerr]

<p>Thanks a lot! I'll try that now and see how it goes. </p>