Viewing same image side by side for editing

[Imjinman]

Hi

I am sure that you must be able to do it...surely..

but how can you see images side by side, so that the original is on the left and the edited on the right?

Thank you

[Joelle]

Hi

I am sure that you must be able to do it...surely..

but how can you see images side by side, so that the original is on the left and the edited on the right?

Thank you

You can open another copy of the image and edit that one.
Shift+D or Shift+W will duplicate the image in the workspace.
It's always best to work on a copy anyway, just in case you accidentally overwrite the original

Joëlle

[MarkZ]

Imjinman:

I interpret your question differently than Joelle did.

Assume you select two images in Manage mode and then select Edit mode. Both images load into Edit. (Alternatively you double click on one image, then another, in Organizer while in Edit mode.) I think the default mode is tab and you see one image at a time and can tab between them. Go to "Window" in the menu - there you have the choice of cascade or tiling horizontally or vertically. I think that is what you want and see which works for you. I trust you are familiar with the "fit image" icons when the pan or zoom tools are selected to choose how the image fits the window.

As you see, the process is totally different than in ASP.

Joelle, thanks for the shift-D/W info; wasn't aware of that.

[Tadjio]

My approach would be slightly different.
Load the Image into Edit Mode.
Do a SaveAs (F12) to a different name.
Load the original Image again (from Recent Files).
If you're not already there, switch to Untabbed Documents (Windows menu).

Then work on the SaveAs Image alongside the Original Image.
(One advantage of my method is that the 2 versions are named differently straight away so there is less danger of overwriting the original, which Shift+W might cause).

[teknisyan]

I'm with tadjio on this one, you will need to create a copy of the image either via the SAVE AS feature of PSP or via the Windows Explorer (right-click-drag then select CREATE A COPY) or just the COPY/PASTE on a different folder.

Once you have duplicated the file, you can open both files where one will be the original and second will be the one that you'll be editing. You will need to disable the TABBED VIEW if you are on PSP X4 and PSP X3 or just go to WINDOWS > TILE VERTICALLY.

[jaxman43]

Basically the two methods are really the same. If you duplicate an image (Shift D), the new duplicate does not have the same name as the original. It automatically gets names as Image1 (or some successive number). If you save the duplicate, you will not overwrite the original.

[Tadjio]

Basically the two methods are really the same. If you duplicate an image (Shift D), the new duplicate does not have the same name as the original. It automatically gets names as Image1 (or some successive number). If you save the duplicate, you will not overwrite the original.

Yes.
It was Shift+W that worried me.
I think it is a good habit to use SaveAs (F12) as soon as you start editing an original image so there is no danger of overwriting it by mistake.
I would use Shift+D if I am half-way through editing an image and want to work on a duplicate copy.