Following a video & failed at first step

ipbr21054,

My guess is that you are letting the mouse go before the drag-&-drop is completed; you need to hold the mouse down until the process is over. 

This is not an easy technique. See if this alternative will work better.

1.  Click on the Layout button at the bottom of the screen.
2.  Select either "Column and Rows" or "Rows and Column" (Either option will display your three images in the workspace.)
3.  Use the Move tool to drag the 2nd image onto the 1st one.

Also ive noticed that not only do i not see the circle around the cursor i see in his video that when he drags the photo over the first photo that first photo tab is selected & when he lets go the layer is shown on the right.

I never get that far as im always still on the second image.
I never see the first tab selected.

Is my photo even beeing selected ?

Im doint it correct BUT its just not doing anything.

I select the second image.
In the photo bin the correct image is shown with a blue border.
With my left mouse button down & the move tool selected i move the curcor over to the first image tab.
Now at this point in the video his photo tabe switches from the previous image to the image he is going to drop it on and create the layer.
My tab never gets selected at all

We are talking about two different techniques:

- Using the Tabs/Tabbed Images feature.
- Displaying the three images in the workspace, dragging one image onto another.

In the video he is taking advantage of the Tabs/Tabbed Images feature. That's why he is placing his cursor on the tab.

If you are using the Layout button (Column and Rows or Rows and Column) to display the three images in the workspace, you don't click on a tab and drag it to another tab. You click somewhere on the image and, then, drag it to the other image.

I think your getting confused.
I am doing EXACTLY as in video.
I select the image I wish to place onto the other.
I select the move tool.
I then drag to the first tab.

STOP

At this point my tab should change colour etc to show its selected but it doesn’t.
This is the issue.

That is correct and when you move over the tab for the image you wish to place this photo it should highlight / select it etc.

But it doesn’t. So I’m still then on the tabbed image I first selected.

ipbr21054, I notice in his video he is using a Mac. If you are using a PC then elements may behave a little differently. So you may have to use a work around.

If I have 3 images open and wish to bring image 1 and image 2 as additional layers in image 3 (3 layers total).

This is what I would do. With image 1 open, right click the Background layer and choose duplicate layer. Then a new window will open. You can rename the layer. Then under "Destination" there is the option to send it to another document. Using the drop down list select image 3.

Similarly with image 2 open duplicate the background layer and send it to image 3. All done!

Of course, with Photoshop Elements there are often several ways to do the same thing. With the photo Bin open, you can just drag a file into another open psd file and it will appear as a separate layer.






Kind regards
Chris