Photoshop Tip 2: How to create a Photo Collage

09/01/2012

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Photo collages are very easy to create and an effective way to show off a selection of your photos whether you are using them for a blog, website, or for printing and using on greetings cards or framing etc. 

For this tutorial I am using Photoshop Elements, the current version is Photoshop Elements 10 and can be purchased for around £50 for either a PC or Mac 

1. The first thing you need to do is to gather the photos that you want to use on your collage and open them using Photoshop Elements so they show in your project bin.
In this example our collage is going to contain 7 different photographs as you can see in the project bin along the bottom of the screen image above.
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2. Next you need to open a blank document that you will create your collage on. 
To do this click on:


File > New > Blank File ...

A box will then appear asking you what size you would like the new document to be. Set the size of the document according to your requirements. If you are creating a photo collage to use on a web page it is also a good idea to set the pixels per inch size to 72. For printable documents a pixels per inch size of 300 should be used.

3. Once you are happy with the document size click 'Ok' and a new blank document will appear on the screen.






4. Now select a photo from your Project Bin and using the 'move tool' arrow drag and drop that photo onto your blank document. You can make this photo smaller or bigger by clicking and dragging the corner of the image.



5. Once you are happy with where you have placed your first image go on to drag, drop, and place the rest of your photos. You can set them close together with no gaps or leave a gap between them. The choice is yours! 


6. When you are happy with the layout of the photographs in your collage you need to flatten the image. To do this right click on the layer called 'Layer1' in the right hand menu and select 'flatten image' 


7. At this stage if you need to crop your image slightly do this using the crop tool as you would for any other image. You may also want to add some text or a logo, if so make sure you flatten the image again after you have added this. 


8. Save your photo collage and use it however you wish! 


This is the 2nd in a series of Photoshop Elements Tutorials so please check back for more in the future!
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Our Finished Photo Collage
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