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Select a new ‘copy’ layer in the layers palette and with the moVe tool drag it down by holding the Shift key (to keep it inline).

Drag it down so there is a little space between the first one. Now select the other copy in the L palette and drag it down below the other one. If necessary, you may have to link the group and move them all up or Edit: Transform: Scale them smaller to fit.

Here they are equally spaced apart (you can usually ‘eyeball’ it). Now you can put them in their own layer set.

This next step is simply matching other documents to this document. The document we’re working on is 300 dpi.

The other source files that we want to use must be at least 300 dpi if we’re going to final output for print. Here I’ve scanned these 35mm photographs at 720 to give me lots of flexibility. If I keep them at that resolution and drag them, they’re going to be way to large so what I’m doing is creating a manual adjustment for each file first under Image: Adjustment: Image Size first. I’m making them 300 resolution to match the document and then altering the width and height to be an approximate size to fit in the new document. If I wanted max quality I would’ve kept them at a larger size @ 720 but that’s ok, it should balance out for now.

Now drag in the images that you’ve chosen while pre-vis’ing on the fly that will look good within this document format.
 

We’ll next transform them down to size and have to adjust the layer orders. Note that whatever layer is selected in the layers palette, when you drag in new layers, they will appear on top of the layer you have selected in the palette.

You can now drag these layers into a layer set for more organization (and organize your underwear drawer). You can also choose Layer properties and change the color code for gits and shiggles.

Stay with me here...Select the layers that you want to scale down and link them as shown. Go to Edit: Transform or (what I use) Alt/Opt: E:F or Ctrl/Cmd ‘T’.

Hold down the Ctrl/Cmd key and scale the linked layers down to a size that is just bigger than the size of the boxed layers you created.