Quick Collages
Pump up the drama and create a great composite by combining two versions of the same shot.
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William
November 3, 2011 at 2:53 pm
I’ll be damned if I can find the files needed to follow along with the “Quick Collages” article in this months magazine. Are they actually here? I must be going blind!
Rick LePage
November 3, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Hi William,
Downloads are always on the magazine’s home page. In this case, it’s the November/December 2011 issue page, here:
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/magazine/v8n6/
For Matt’s article, the download file is here:
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/members/download-quick-collages/
best,
Rick
Marilyn
November 10, 2011 at 6:15 pm
i I know this probably sounds like a weird question but, i’ll ask anyway. I have been working on the Quick Collage and after I copy what I want and refine the part I have selected I don’t know what to do so that I can copy and paste. I still have the running ants on the selection.Can you tell me how to copy and paste with the ants there or what should I do to get rid of them. Thanks Marilyn
Rick
November 11, 2011 at 9:05 am
The marching ants are just an indicator of what you have selected. You can press Ctrl-H (Mac: Command-H) to hide them, but you can also just copy (Ctrl-C (Mac: Command-C)) them, then paste (Ctrl-V (Mac: Command-V)) where you want the selection put.
Sandra
November 11, 2011 at 8:40 am
I had a great picture of my grandson playing football and the quick collage came out beautiful. After a couple of tries to figure out the directions, the project was actually very easy. I especially liked the extra tips because the shadowing made the picture “pop”.
Thanks for the backgrounds – and I love your magazine.
Vivian
November 11, 2011 at 7:55 pm
I’m a little confused. I want to do this on a 12 x 12 scrapbook page. I have no problem doing the selection. In Step 3 it says…sometimes it’s helpful to see your selection on a solid background to make sure you haven’t missed a spot. Press the F key to cycle through the preview modes. What preview modes? When I press F nothing happens. Then in step 4, it says…don’t worry that he’s too large to fit on the page. Mine is no where near too large to fit on the page. (I’m using my own photo). When I enlarge it to fit my page, it loses some of its clarity. How big is your page? Thanks for any help. I really want to get this .
Bonnie
November 18, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Love the tutorial. I used my own picture and it turned out great!!! Love the magazine, love the help, just one happy camper. Great job.
Kay
December 4, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Thanks to your collage instructions, we have 25 little football players that are so happy with their posters my daughter made following your steps. She took pictures all season long, so was able to do the collage for each player.
Sheila
December 8, 2011 at 8:42 am
I’m stumped. I can’t get the copy/edit, copy paste to put my photo into the textured background. When I perform these functions, it just gives me a blank copy in my workspace. Help!
Henk
January 14, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Thanks for this great tutorial. I’ve made several of them with my own photos. But still I’ve a question about Matt’s suggestion under #7 to use the Futura Bold font. I can’t find it my Font Family. Is it hidden under a specific button or what? Can you help me?