how do i merge pics?

i want to merge a bunch of small pics into one big pic... is that possible? I tried the magic wand thing but it doesn't look right. Im new at this and i have photoshop elements it wont tell me if it is 2.0 or something like that...
thank you in advance!

Create a layered file.
In your Photoshop file, place each element on a separate layer. We're working with two scanned photographs—a close-up of an old machine on the background layer, and a photo of a factory on the top. Between them, we sandwiched a type layer and a set of stripes.





Access the blending options.
Double-click a layer in the Layers palette to display the Layer Style dialog box.

If you have already opened the Layer Style dialog box to apply a layer effect, you can access the blending options by clicking Blending Options: Default at the top of the Styles list.

Take a minute to explore the blending controls. At the top of the dialog box are the General Blending controls for the blending mode and opacity. If you change these settings in the Layers palette, the changes are reflected here. Below the general settings are the Advanced Blending options, where you can create special blending effects.





Create a knockout effect.
Go to the Advanced Blending section of the Layer Style dialog box, and choose Shallow or Deep from the Knockout pop-up menu. (If the layers you're working with aren't in a layer set or clipping group, both options produce the same effect—cutting through to the background layer. If there's no background layer, the knockout cuts through to transparency.)

We used the type layer to create our knockout: the type punches through the stripes to reveal the background. We also reduced the opacity in the type layer to make the background photo more visible through the type.




Use Blend If controls to drop colors out of a layer.
Double-click a layer in the Layers palette to open the Layer Style dialog box, and use the Blend If pop-up menu to specify the drop-out colors. (You can select individual color channels from the Blend If pop-up menu so that the drop-out is limited to specific colors, or you can select Gray to affect all the colors in a layer equally.) Use the Blend If sliders to set a blending range: use the This Layer slider to make colors drop out of the active layer, or the Underlying Layer slider to affect colors in the layer below.

We applied the Blend If controls to the factory photo on the top layer, choosing Red from the Blend If pop-up menu so that only the red tones would be affected.

We wanted to drop out the darkest reds, so we adjusted the black triangle at the left of the slider. To soften the color transition, we split the slider into two by Alt-dragging (Windows) or Option-dragging (Mac OS) the slider triangle. Splitting the slider defined a graduated blend—a lot like using a gradient mask.

Finally, we lowered the fill opacity to soften the factory photo, creating a ghostly image.





Use a knockout to reveal part of the background.
In the process of compositing our image, an interesting element in the bottom image (the red label on the machine) was obscured. We used a knockout to bring it back into the composition.

First, we created a new layer at the top of the Layers palette. Then we made a selection where we wanted the background image to show through and filled the selection (any color will do).

With this new layer active, we set the Fill Opacity to 0% and chose Deep from the Knockout pop-up menu in the Layer Styles palette. The red label on the machine is visible again.

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I think this is much better effort to help than my earlier attempt.