Creating a collage

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Creating a collage

Postby Alex on Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:03 pm

Hello all you knowledgable people.

My dad's 60th is coming up in a few months time, so my sister and I thought to prepare a collage of many photos (including those B&Ws from his young days) and some of my D70 photos.

The way to do it is taken from S. Kelby's book.

Choose a base photo (high res D70 one as this will be enlarged singnificantly).

Use scans of old B&Ws (in RGB format to avoid grayscale) and put on top as layers and blend in using gradients and soft brush.

Any ideas/ comments/ suggestions? I hope to print it 20 x 30 or so.

Thanks
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Postby stubbsy on Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:34 pm

Alex

There are also programs specificaly designed to do this. Two I'm aware of:

Mosaic Creator

Andrea Mosaic

and a sample:

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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:50 am

Alex you are going in the right direction with layers and brush blending and it can all be done in PS with no problems
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Postby Alex on Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:54 pm

Peter and Chris,

Thanks for your help.

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