1) Open up your before and after images.
2) Now its resizing time! My original image size is 1280px by 960px. Go to Image - Resize - Image Size. For this tutorial I am going to resize both images down to 20%.
3) Now comes the tricky part. Select your "before" image and go to Image - Resize - Canvas Size. You are going to have to play around with this.
So, my image size is 256px by 192px. Now, for the canvas, I am going to round the width of my image up to 300px, so 300px an image for 2 images. Lets make the width of the canvas size 600px. Now for the height, 192px can be rounded up to 200px, and I am going to add an extra 50px for text and such. Which makes my new canvas size 600px by 250px.
4) Ok, now a fairly simple part. Hold down "ctrl" on your keyboard and click on your layer thumbnail in your layers palette, which I have outlined in bluw below.
5) Go to Edit - Copy, and then go back to your "before" image, which should now have a large canvas go to Edit - Paste.
6) Now go to View - Grid. Now go to Edit - Preferences - Grid. For this particular picture I have changed gridline to ever 1 pixel(s).
7) Select your "Move Tool" (V). Move both your images to a good spot. I am keeping both images 3 squares from the end and about 2 squares from the bottom.
8) Now use your "horizontal type tool" (T) and using a color that complements the image (#ff6600), write "before" and "after" above your images.
9) What I did, is I went to Edit - Preferences - Grid again, and changed it back to inches. For me, the text now just clicked into place.You may have to experiment a bit till the text actually just 'clicks', however when you look at the image you can tell that the text is more or less centered.
10) I added a drop shadow to both my images, and below is how they turned out.
Remember, its going to take a while to get the whole grid thing perfect or atleast close to perfect. Also play around with the grid preferences until you get something that you are comfortable working with.
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