collage curiosity - DPChallenge Forums

08/14/2008 01:03:52 AM · #1

Okay you know how at a craft store you can buy a fram that says "friends" and you place your pictures behind the cut out of friends ?

I'm curious to know if you can create something with a color background, and insert the picture into the words so it places it in the word you have typed..

example.. MOM written in some font that is like bubble letters and then you can plae the photos in each letter flatten the layers and there you go?

if anyone knows how to do this any helpw ould be great! My great grandmother is always talkingabout those frames that she see's in the store and how she can never find one that says great grandkids.. so I thought that since she has 5 "great" grandkids, and 5"grand" kids and 4 "kids" I could insert a photo in each letter of the word and.. well you get where i am going with that..

kyebosh

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF 80-200mm f/2.8L

08/14/2008 01:09:46 AM · #2

Get some matte board, big stencils and an exact-o knife and make it with your own hands with a frame from AC Moore or Michaels. Not only will you get exactly what you want, but when you give it to her the gift will be twice as nice :-)

08/14/2008 01:15:38 AM · #3

She enjoys the creative things I make and print here when it come to collages tho, If I wanted a matte board I can go buy that and just insert some pics, I wanted to actually have it done on the computer and send off to be printed in maybe a 10x30 canvas or something..

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

08/14/2008 02:00:34 AM · #4

Easy enough in Photoshop:

- Put the text on a layer. Choose an appropriate size and shaped based on how big the output will be. I chose Arial Black for this example:

Change the opacity of the text layer to 50% so you can see the placement of the images underneath.

- Now place the images on layers underneath, one at a time, positioning them under the letter you want them in.

- Now CTRL+click on the text layer in the layers palette, this will select the outline of the text. Then hit CTRL+SHIFT+I to select the inverse.

- Make sure the photo layer is active and hit delete. This will delete all of the photo except where the text mask was. If the photo overlapped other letters, just manually erase those parts if you want.

- Add pictures to new layers and repeat the procedure.

- now you can turn off the text layer and you will see just the photos. Flatten the layers if you want and print it out...

Hope that ws helpful.

edit to add an intermediate screenshot for clarification.

Message edited by author 2008-08-14 02:04:18.

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

08/14/2008 03:15:03 AM · #5

I was thinking that the OP wanted more along the lines of this, where the images are within the text, not on the text. I quickly made it in PS.

jeger

Canon EOS-5D

08/14/2008 06:04:57 AM · #6

I thought this thread was about College Curiosity..ha ha. Oops

08/14/2008 05:33:52 PM · #7

thanks!!! you guys are great! you have no idea how many headaches and up till 6am morning cussing out adobe and the laptop you have saved.. lol
that was exactly what I was trying to do and I love how you actually took the time to show me the steps and what it would look like. thank you sooooooooo much!

08/16/2008 03:54:25 PM · #8

Okay Art, I finally got it figured out! thanks for all your help

08/16/2008 03:55:40 PM · #9

Originally posted by Photomom1981:

Okay Art, I finally got it figured out! thanks for all your help

Hooray! Post a sample?

08/16/2008 04:41:28 PM · #10

ho do I do that, and keep in mind it's just a "play around try to figure out" picture.. lol

08/16/2008 04:49:01 PM · #11

Originally posted by Photomom1981:

ho do I do that, and keep in mind it's just a "play around try to figure out" picture.. lol

Save a small-ish version of it and upload it to your portfolio and post the thumb in this thread. :)

08/16/2008 04:56:11 PM · #12

[thumb]//www.dpchallenge.com/portfolio_edit.php?IMAGE_ID=711002[/thumb]

did this work?

08/16/2008 04:56:25 PM · #13

ahh no.. it didn't hmm

08/16/2008 04:56:46 PM · #14

08/16/2008 04:57:07 PM · #15

well.. hell..... i'ma get it in a min...

Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital

08/16/2008 04:58:01 PM · #16

[thumb]711002[/thumb]

[thumb ]711002[/thumb ]

joynim

Olympus E-500 EVOLT

08/16/2008 04:58:01 PM · #17

[thumb]711002[/thumb]

Fixed it for you :)

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

08/16/2008 04:58:20 PM · #18

Originally posted by Photomom1981:

[thumb]711002[/thumb]

Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital

08/16/2008 04:58:42 PM · #19

talk about a photo finsh!
joynim: 08/16/2008 04:58:01 PM
Art Roflmao: 08/16/2008 04:58:01 PM

joynim

Olympus E-500 EVOLT

08/16/2008 04:58:42 PM · #20

Ha Ken great minds think alike and at exactly the same time!

Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital

08/16/2008 04:59:04 PM · #21

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!

joynim

Olympus E-500 EVOLT

08/16/2008 04:59:06 PM · #22

OMG we did it again!

08/16/2008 04:59:08 PM · #23

well shit, how'd you do that..lol here I am cussing the darn thing out!
one more try before i give up!

[thumb]711002[/thumb]

08/16/2008 04:59:23 PM · #24

HA! beat ya!