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04/15/2007 10:48:49 AM · #1 |
I took several hundred photos at a fancy dress charity walk yesterday - I would like to make them into a montage - not a fancy blended one just a straight forward rectilinear tiled one.
I know I can use the place functionb, putting each picture on a separate layer, and I could do areas separately and put them together later, but it occurred to me that there might be a way of making the process less laborious - either a programme, or perhaps templates to make the alignments easier. Google gave me hundreds of montage tutorials but none for this kind of tiled montage.
I am cropping my pictures to 9x6 and am aiming to make a 15 x 10 montage. Would I be best to resize my images first and then put them on a 15 x 10 canvas in photoshop - or would you work with full size images on a huge canvas and then resize later ?
If any of these questions are stupid plewase point it out nicely. Thanks.
Message edited by author 2007-04-15 10:49:42. |
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04/15/2007 11:11:29 AM · #2 |
You could create your own 10 x 15 template. This would give you the most flexibility as it would allow you to select the images ahead of time and choose the aspect ratio for each individually. This would allow for unusual crops and make for a more interesting montage (IMO anyway). When placing your images into the template you can resize them then.
How many images do you plan to put in the final layout?
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04/15/2007 11:23:14 AM · #3 |
I had thought about a 2" margin at the bottom with thew name of the walk andf the date, anmd then 8 strips with images 1" high and 1.5" long, sticking to the same proportions as the 9x6 crops, whicj I think would let me put 80 images in - or slightly less since I intended to tile them with each row moved along so the joins are above the centres of the photos in the rows above and below - (logwimded - like a bonded beick wall in otgher words) - I have tried doing more irregular beroken up montages before but I'm afraid that calls for rather more flair than I possess. I thought this way would let me get as many individuals in as possible.
I'm okay with doing my own template - my problem was that when I did this before, placing and resizing I felt that when I resized smaller, if I had to resize bigger later it seemed to comprom ise the image quality, requiring the individual image to be placed in afresh.
If that doesn't make sense I apologise - i truied to make it clear but it got as bit tangled.
Anyway, that's why i thought stickinmg to a regular arrangment and resizing at the last minute might be the way to go. |
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04/15/2007 12:38:42 PM · #4 |
| 2 words. LumaPix FotoFusion. |
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04/15/2007 12:51:38 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by _eug:
2 words. LumaPix FotoFusion. |
I'll second that! |
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