Coin photos with both sides combined into one image

[Albert D]

I don't understand why you wouldn't just open them in Photoshop, create a wider canvas, contour the coins, and select each coin and place on the wider canvas on their own layers. (Or have I missed the point?)

Thats exactly what I want to do. I'm brand new to Lightroom and PS and am still learning. I need to put the time on the computer to learn how to use the software.

 

[JoolsW]

Other people have already covered this, but for what it's worth here's how I would do it.
(I stand to be corrected, but this is a job for Photoshop not Lightroom). There are various ways of doing it but try this:
Open one of the pics in PSD, size the image to what you want, now add enough canvas size to fit the second coin pic next to the first. Open the second coin pic, select it, add a new Layer to your Pic 1 file, paste pic 2 into the second layer of pic1. That's a start. Now you need to make selections around the coins so you can have the same background colour. There are various ways of making the selections. RTFM !
(Apologies if someone has a better way of doing this... I use Affinity nowadays, but I still have ancient PSD CS3).

 

[Thiophilos]

I just did this in Irfanview, a free program, and not even a RAW converter. But it read the raw files just fine. I cropped the RAWs square and then combined them as a Simple Panorama.

It is simple to do this and many programs will do it. OP just has to get acquainted with some software and do some experimenting.

 

[JoolsW]

Could you remove that black outline around the coins? Or was it just a quickie job?

 

[JoolsW]

Another tip... try placing the coins on a spacer a few mm above the background. It could be excellent for the shadows.

 

[Thiophilos]

Another tip... try placing the coins on a spacer a few mm above the background. It could be excellent for the shadows.

Or on glass.

 

[Thiophilos]

I don't think the shooting part is an issue here. Albert (OP) seems to do a good job of photographing the coins. The topic is combining two images into a single image. That can be done in many programs (but not Lightroom Classic). It is just a matter of learning the steps (and knowing not to try to do it in LrC).

 

[Albert D]

I don't think the shooting part is an issue here. Albert (OP) seems to do a good job of photographing the coins. The topic is combining two images into a single image. That can be done in many programs (but not Lightroom Classic). It is just a matter of learning the steps (and knowing not to try to do it in LrC).

I think this was my initial confusion. I Thought LR was going to work for me. Now that I have some great suggestions I need to sit down at the computer and learn the program.

 

[Golem]

Thats exactly what I want to do. I'm brand new to Lightroom and PS and am still learning. I need to put the time on the computer to learn how to use the software.

No detailed instruction from me, but just some possibility for you to have perspective on your impossible idea:

Raw files are immutable. They cannot be changed. You cannot edit them.

You can only generate new files from the matrix that is the raw file. The raw file never changes.